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From: mbrookov@udenva.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: anti-educational discount legislati
Message-ID: <12360@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 19:17:24 GMT
References: <8400172@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <4297@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1989Oct2.102041.245@hellgate.utah.edu> <6758@ingr.com>
Reply-To: mbrookov@nike.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
Organization: Univ. of Denver, CO, USA
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In article <6758@ingr.com> proctor@ingr.com (John Proctor) writes:
>In article <1989Oct2.102041.245@hellgate.utah.edu>, t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu
>(Tony Jacobs) writes:
>> 
>> DON'T FORGET SOMETHING HERE, this legislation also impacts every computer
>> manufacture and MANY others have discount programs for educational 
>> institutions
>> 
>> Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
>
>Before you all get incensed, remember there is no such thing as a free
>lunch! The rest of us poor working slobs are paying for your discounts.
>Corporate America is not, I repeat, NOT a charitable institution! Sooo
>all you educational types remember who is paying for your discounts! 
>
>Flame on!

OK!
No, there is no such thing as a free lunch.  Every student that buys a computer
at a discount and then learns how to use it is one less person that will have
to be trained to use a computer by Corporate America.  Training is expensive,
and if Corporate America can get the University's to train thier students to
use a computer by offering discounts to the University's students, faculty,
and staff then Corporate America will save that much time and money in the 
future.

I include Faculty and Staff in the discounts because if they do not know what
to do with a computer, they will not be able to teach it to the students.

					Matthew B. Brookover
					University of Denver
					mbrookov@nike.cair.du.edu
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