Quoting CK Raju ck.thrissur@gmail.com:
"..Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with ACM providing all ACM Student Members with access, at no charge, to a variety (~ 100) of software packages through its Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA). The goal of this program is to get these tools into the hands of current students. All active ACM Student Members are eligible to participate in the ACM/MSDNAA Program..." http://www.acm.org/membership/student/msdnaa-faq
Months before, They had signed the same with IEEE too.. http://swatantran.blogspot.com/2008/07/ieee-wants-its-students-to-be-slaves.... But IEEE already have an established track record of seeing the rest of the whole world as slaves. But I dont think Individuals inside ACM or IEEE are having such a view. These measures are to be resisted and voiced up inside the organisation itself. We should be having enough friends inside these organisations who know the value of Freedom and its their time to voice up. What about mailing the office bearers of these organisations at different places alerting of this chains their new generation is imposed to use?
Regards Shyam K