What about if you are a student and your parents bought the software,
you can't, is it then your parents responsibility to buy the software,
or is there truly a need for "student discounts"?
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 10:23 PM, Paul Nuernberger wrote:
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> Thank you - more eloquent than I could manage by far !!
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>> From: Stephen Jendraszak <stevehj_at_mac.com>
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>> I dunno. On the one hand, I am not insensitive to the need for
>> companies/people to alter the price of goods when people who cannot
>> afford the goods literally NEED them... like food and medicine (AIDS
>> mediation in Africa is a good example... companies actually charge more
>> there that in some developed countries, although the need in Africa is
>> great, and the price of their increase margins in lost human lives in
>> immense. This is corporate irresponsibility.). However, we are talking
>> about software here. The very fact that a person owns a computer, and a
>> Newton... it puts this conversation on a whole different level. The
>> fact
>> that you have enough wealth to own a computer, and that the software
>> that you want is a luxury, I think makes it unfair to ask for a sliding
>> scale. Just my $.02.
>>
>> sj
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