Comment by iggldiggl

The student/hobbyist account type will most likely literally only be useful for that strict purpose, i.e. very small-scale distribution to a known quantity of people.

I think it was mentioned somewhere else that that account type would require manually authorising each individual installation, so it'd still be useless for small freeware developers, who are only in it for the fun, too, but want to give away their software to everybody who might find it useful.