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From: bees@druxy.UUCP (DavisRB)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Apple University Consortium
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 12:00:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 12:00:22 1984
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> Unfortunately, the  US  law  says  you  have  to  sell  identical
> manufactured  goods at the same price to everybody, no matter how
> the utility of your product varies among your customers.  One  of
> the  few legal schemes to get around this is to sell computers at
> "academic" prices.  The restriction is artificial, but it  allows
> more  computers to be sold to those who wouldn't buy at "regular"
> price, while requiring "regular" price from  most  of  those  who
> would be willing to pay more than the "academic" price.

Then how does Apple get away with giving discounts to Certified
Apple Developers?  Lots of companies do this!

     Ray Davis     AT&T Information Systems Laboratories     Denver
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