If you are happy with the shelter of the FIRST umbrella, download the software to a memory key as Nick has suggested and install on multiple team computers.I also think that it would be a good thing when teaching kids to become programmers, to respect the intellectual property rights of the creators, resisting the natural human impulse to copy software. I don't always agree with what the law is, but until we change it ...
If FIRST tells us we can use it for our team, I see no reason to believe we are being dishonest or breaking the law by allowing our team to use software we purchased.Also FIRST has the basic software on their website for free download-
I called the Lego tech support to see if they had patches for the new Windows 8, and it turns out they do- And it's even better than I had hoped for, because you can download the entire software package to your laptops today! (Plus you can download this to your desktops :) It takes about 10 minutes from beginning to end.
Go here-Follow this link and click the first blue download link- MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 DOWNLOAD (642MB) to start the download.
They have it for FREE on their own website. It's like open source at this moment. They only thing this one doesn't have that the educational software does is "data logging", which let's be honest- 99.9% of teams will not use in competition.
Hope this helps,
Brandy
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