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In article <8400172@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Re:  Apple's appeal to stop legislation against student-discount pricing.
>
>Don't you hate one-dimensional slanted arguments?

Do you have any arguments against Apple, besides being against Apple's
profit-making motive? Remember who the legislation is being sponsored
by: Apple dealers, who want to make even *more* money off of students.

The big losers: students, and those affiliated with a university.

>A primary reasons for the discount program is that computers are like
>cocaine -- once someone is hooked on a brand [e.g. macintosh], they
>will continue to be a "user" (computer abuser?) for the rest of their
>lives.

Does that mean that Apple should stop doing this? I happen to believe
that people wouldn't get "hooked" on the Macintosh unless it was a
superior computer for students to use. I happen to believe that Apple
is doing the right thing, both for itself and for students.

[stuff about how Apple makes big bux off of students]

>I can see why Apple opposes this legislation.

Is there any particular reason to support the legislation, though?

>Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois

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