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From: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C.  Haugeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The Price Wars Cometh? (was: Re University price differences)
Summary: NeXT doesn't determine the mark up
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Date: 30 Sep 90 23:09:28 GMT
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Reply-To: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C.  Haugeland)
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A number of posters have said or taken for granted that the differences
in price from one university to another are a function of how many
machines that university would promise to buy. This paints NeXT in a
slightly unfavorable light that I'm not sure is justified. When I asked
the impression I got was that NeXT just had one educational price to
the university, and the end-user price was a joint function of that and
whatever mark up the university added. Now I can't claim to know this
for sure, but it seems important, because it eliminates the (small) 
suggestion that NeXT is being venal and manipulative.

I personally prefer it that way.

John Haugeland
haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu