Students often have an inaccurate view of actual software prices because of generous "student pricing" options for statistics software. I think it is irresponsible to train a generation of students on software that will cost offices thousands per license when there are less expensive options available. After the break, there is a link to another blog comparing prices of some popular software packages.
Statbandit on Software Pricing
SAS is the biggest offender (though not listed in the post, SPSS is similar to SAS in pricing with an expensive base package that also requires expensive add-ons to replicate base features in other packages). This is why I support teaching in STATA if I can not get buy-in to adopt R.
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