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From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Osborn's Financing post
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Date: 15 Feb 91 16:37:13 GMT
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In article <5222@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Remote news user) writes:
>In article <252u3744.666487783@fergvax> 252u3744@fergvax.unl.edu (Jerry Annin)  
>writes:
>[ Paraphrasing-  Is there a Santa Claus?]
>> 
>> 	Thanks for listening...
>> 
>> 	Jerry Annin  is  252u3744@fergvax.unl.edu
>
>Yes Jerry, there is a Santa Claus!
>
>Seriously, I think NeXT cares about students.  They set up the whole
>Campus Consultants with students... Not faculty or Staff.  They wanted
>people out "in the field" who could relate to the needs of academia
>not from the point of view of $$$ of a campus bookstore, or the
>$$$ of grant money, but really to see how students would use their
>machines.  The Campus Consultants are a good metric of NeXT's
>commitment to students.
>

I agree with the above.  NeXT does have a commitment to students.
Also maybe nobody ever addressed them with the idea of a third party
organization for financing.  If nobody ever brings it to their attention
the issue will never get answered.

Before flaming someone (NeXT) in the future Jerry get a definitive answer
first, sdaying if it is a possibility or not.
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