Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!apple!agate!pasteur!franny.Berkeley.EDU!c8s-an From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: anti-educational discount legislati Message-ID: <17897@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:43:16 GMT References: <8400172@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 34 In article <8400172@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Re: Apple's appeal to stop legislation against student-discount pricing. > >Don't you hate one-dimensional slanted arguments? Do you have any arguments against Apple, besides being against Apple's profit-making motive? Remember who the legislation is being sponsored by: Apple dealers, who want to make even *more* money off of students. The big losers: students, and those affiliated with a university. >A primary reasons for the discount program is that computers are like >cocaine -- once someone is hooked on a brand [e.g. macintosh], they >will continue to be a "user" (computer abuser?) for the rest of their >lives. Does that mean that Apple should stop doing this? I happen to believe that people wouldn't get "hooked" on the Macintosh unless it was a superior computer for students to use. I happen to believe that Apple is doing the right thing, both for itself and for students. [stuff about how Apple makes big bux off of students] >I can see why Apple opposes this legislation. Is there any particular reason to support the legislation, though? >Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois --- Alex UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!franny!c8s-an INTERNET: c8s-an%franny.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)