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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland Educational Discount (was: Magic CV)
Summary: you don't have to be a student to shop university bookstores
Keywords: borland compilers educational discounts artichoke
Message-ID: <961@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 13 Oct 88 22:26:53 GMT
References: <543@optilink.UUCP> <271@serene.CTS.COM> <Oct.11.11.06.50.1988.18380@topaz.rutgers.edu> <323@mccc.UUCP> <6407@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <40268@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <40268@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:

[comment and response about Borland's educational discount deleted]

>                                   University _bookstores_ can no
>longer do so for some capitalistic reason that escapes me right now.

It's probably an attempt to restrict educational-discount sales to
_real_ students. As long as you pay cash, most university bookstores
don't care whether you're a student or not. As a case in point, a
couple of years ago, shortly after I graduated from SDSU, I went back
to their bookstore to purchase a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 V2.01, because
the $160 price they were selling it for was a far better deal than any
other computer store offered.


	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.arpa