Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!enuxha!martin
From: martin@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Ross D. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fair and equal Representation
Summary: Where's the BEEF?
	 C= Educational Program Vaporware so far.
Message-ID: <375@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 02:04:20 GMT
References: <4539@lab.udel.EDU>
Organization: Arizona State Univ, Tempe
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In article <4539@lab.udel.EDU>, hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Anthony Adam Hill) writes:
>      I talked to Gail Wellington at CA (she came down and talked at Informart
>   in Dallas) and said that they were seriously thinking about entering the 
>   University Education market (but everyone knows that right??). She even hinted
>   at good educational and student discounts. 

People at Commodore have been saying they had an educational program for 
quite a while now.  I have never heard of anyone taking advantage of it.
I have never heard any details.  All I have heard is that it exists.  Seems
like vaporware to me.

There have been some new, more emphatic announcements that such a program is
going to be implemented.  But there have been a number of requests for
details here in comp.sys.amiga, all of which appear to have been ignored.
If there really was such a program, it seems pretty silly for C= to spend
millions on commercials when they won't even spend an hour of an employee's
time to post an explanatory article on their educational program here.  That's
*free* advertising.  And perfectly OK as a benefit to the usenet community.

An unpublicized educational program is as bad as no educational policy at all.
It's even worse, because it annoys people (like me) to think that there may
actually be an educational policy out there that only people in the know
or with friends at C= can take advantage of.  That's the way the C= educational
policy has seemed so far.

I'll believe C= has an educational policy when I see a usenet article
explaining all the details.  That day I will rejoice.


			Ross Martin
			martin@enuxha.eas.asu.edu