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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Mathematica for NeXT, Unbundled Price
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Date: 21 Nov 90 20:24:45 GMT
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Taken from the Mathematica mailing list:

>From: "George A. Lippert" <glippert@dale.cts.com>

>Now that NeXT, Inc.  has decided to unbundle Mathematica (except for academic
>purchasers) the Sales Department at Wolfram tells me that they are considering
>charging $1295 for Mathematica for the NeXT machine.  I think this price is too
>high.  It is out of line with the cost of the machine, $4995.

Yeah, that sounds pretty steep to me too! Someone should tell WRI
to analyze the following equation in Mathematica:

Many_NeXTSs + Free_Educational_Copy + Expensive_General_Price = 

Lots_of_Pirated_Software

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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)