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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: anti-educational discount legislati
Message-ID: <951@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 12:08:12 GMT
References: <8400172@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: carl@aoa (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics assoc., Cambridge, Ma
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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?
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>Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
>1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
>ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies
Don, I think you are either a gross objectivist or else too young
to remember the "good ol' days."  It's called "Fair Trade," and
laws were passed so that companies could NOT force retailers to
sell at a fixed price.  THere's nothing to stop Commodore or IBM ( :=) )
from selling student discounts.  BTW, sporting goods, Ski resort
lift tickets, musical instruments are a few items which come to
mind that are often sold at discount to students/academic institutions.
Why should computers be different? 


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