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07/25/2004: "Why isn't SQL Server free?"

My ASP.NET students are working on a course project that requires a database. I have asked them what database they will use and have got an almost unanimous answer: "MySQL because it is free".
I think SQL Server would be much more popular if it were given free to developers to play with.