Druide Supports Schools

More Than 1200 Schools Receive Antidote for Christmas

[Montréal, November 30, 2022] — Just in time for Christmas, 1278 Canadian schools will receive a free license for Antidote 11, Druide’s flagship writing assistance software, allowing installation on ten computers. This represents a donation worth more than 1.1 million dollars.

First established by Druide in Canada, then in Belgium and now France, the Antidote School Donation Program gives one free license to a school for every ten copies of Antidote sold at retail. Druide’s customers in each of these countries designate the winning establishments by voting. Many made their voice heard: no fewer than 17,644 buyers felt that their favourite school could make good use of the educational potential of Antidote.

Quebec is home to the largest number of winning schools. In total, since the first edition of Antidote was published in 1996, 4493 schools have installed Antidote on 60,872 computers, which represents nearly 5.9 million dollars in software and maintenance distributed free of charge to educational institutions.

Druide, with the help of its customers, is thrilled to make this contribution to the educational effort. Bringing together an advanced corrector, rich dictionaries and detailed language guides, Antidote allows students to learn from their mistakes and improve their style. Designed initially for professional office writing, the software also shines in the classroom thanks to the innovative educational use that teachers have made of it for more than 25 years.

Crowned best choice in several specialized media rankings, Antidote stands out for its neural correction engine, the depth of its reference works and its harmonious integration into the main word processing and email softwares on Windows and Mac.

Druide informatique produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing assistance software suite available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing tutorial application. The company is also the creator of WebElixir, a quality assurance service for websites. In addition to its software, Druide publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.

Antidote Donated to 470 Educational Institutions in France

[Paris, November 30, 2022] — For the very first time in France, 470 educational institutions will receive a free license for Antidote 11, Druide’s flagship writing assistance software, allowing installation on ten computers. This represents a donation worth more than 300,000 euros. Druide announced this news during its distributor Mysoft’s competition at Educ@tech Expo, the professional exhibition for education held in Paris.

First established by Druide in Canada, then in Belgium and now France, the Antidote School Donation Program gives one free license to an educational institution for every ten copies of Antidote sold at retail. Druide’s customers in each of these countries designate the winning establishments by voting. Many made their voice heard: no fewer than 17,644 buyers felt that their favourite school could make good use of the educational potential of Antidote.

In total, since the first edition of Antidote was published in 1996, 4493 schools have installed Antidote on 60,872 computers, which represents over 4.2 million euros in software and maintenance distributed free of charge to educational institutions.

Druide, with the help of its customers, is thrilled to make this contribution to the educational effort. Bringing together an advanced corrector, rich dictionaries and detailed language guides, Antidote allows students to learn from their mistakes and improve their style. Designed initially for professional office writing, the software also shines in the classroom thanks to the innovative educational use that teachers have made of it for more than 25 years. On several occasions, the Ministry of National Education has highlighted its educational value.

Crowned best choice in several specialized media rankings in France, Antidote stands out for its neural correction engine, the depth of its reference works and its harmonious integration into the main word processing and email software on Windows and Mac.

Druide informatique produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing assistance software suite available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing tutorial application. The company is also the creator of WebElixir, a quality assurance service for websites. In addition to its software, Druide publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.

Antidote Donated to 81 Belgian Educational Institutions

[Brussels, November 30, 2022] — Just in time for Christmas, 81 Belgian educational institutions will receive a free license for Antidote 11, Druide’s flagship writing assistance software, allowing installation on ten computers. This represents a donation worth more than 50,000 euros.

First established by Druide in Canada, then in Belgium and now France, the Antidote School Donation Program gives one free license to an educational institutions for every ten copies of Antidote sold at retail. Druide’s customers in each of these countries designate the winning establishments by voting. Many made their voice heard: no fewer than 17,644 buyers felt that their favourite school could make good use of the educational potential of Antidote.

In total, since the first edition of Antidote was published in 1996, 4493 schools have installed Antidote on 60,872 computers, which represents nearly 4.2 million euros in software and maintenance distributed free of charge to educational institutions.

Druide, with the help of its customers, is thrilled to make this contribution to the educational effort. Bringing together an advanced corrector, rich dictionaries and detailed language guides, Antidote allows students to learn from their mistakes and improve their style. Designed initially for professional office writing, the software also shines in the classroom thanks to the innovative educational use that teachers have made of it for more than 25 years.

Crowned best choice in several specialized European media rankings, Antidote stands out for its neural correction engine, the depth of its reference works and its harmonious integration into the main word processing and email software on Windows and Mac.

Druide informatique produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing assistance software suite available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing tutorial application. The company is also the creator of WebElixir, a quality assurance service for websites. In addition to its software, Druide publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.

Section 1 — COMMITMENT

Scope

For every ten single-user copies of Antidote 11 or Antidote+ sold at retail in a participating country, Druide informatique inc. (“Druide”) pledges to donate Antidote to one School (as this expression is defined in section 2). The donation is made to the Schools that receive the most votes, according to the allocation rules set out below.

Participating Countries

The Antidote donation program for schools currently applies to Canada, France and Belgium.

Section 2 — VOTE

Admissibility

Any person (including legal persons such as companies or organizations) that purchases or receives as a gift a single-user copy of Antidote 11 or Antidote+ may vote.

Eligibility

Votes may be cast in favour of any educational institution from a participating country recognized by the ministry of education in its jurisdiction (a “School”).

Exercising

The right to vote can be exercised via www.antidote.info once an download code for Antidote 11 or an subscription code for Antidote+ has been used.

Counting

Votes will be counted on the launch date of Antidote 11’s successor edition (which, for these purposes, will be called Antidote 12).

Section 3 — ALLOCATION

Free licences

Antidote is donated in blocks of ten, in the form of one licence allowing Antidote to be installed on ten computers in the same School (“Free Licence”). For example, if 50,000 single-user copies of Antidote are sold at retail in Canada, 500 Canadian Schools will receive a Free Licence, granting them the shared ability to install Antidote on 5000 computers.

Recipient schools

The Schools that have received the highest number of votes will be the recipients of a Free Licence. If two or more Schools have the same number of votes, their place in the ranking will be determined according to the date of the first vote cast in their favour.

Provision

Druide provides Free Licences to the recipient Schools within twenty-four (24) months following the launch of Antidote 12.