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- Subject: Re: Academic Pricing??
- Cc: executor@ardi.com
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- In-reply-to: "Zomby"'s message of Sat, 15 Jun 1996 10:53:35 -0400
- To: "Zomby" <zomby@infose.com>
- From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: 15 Jun 1996 15:36:56 -0500
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- "Zomby" <zomby@infose.com> writes:
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- > Well... there are many companies who do have academic pricing enven if
- > they are distributing mainly through stores and resellers. (ex.
- > Microsoft, Borland...)
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- Metrowerks, Matlab (price is a joke for Linux though, made me use
- octave instead), Wolfram Research (Mathematica), SUN, PageMaker...
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- (But I understand if you need to wait until you get the ball rolling
- before offering academic discounts again. It's that pesky revenue
- problem.)
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- > That would be a VERY nice thing because I know *I* can't afford the full
- > priced version. It would give you the opportunity to sell a lot more
- > copies of the product to people that may not be able to pay the full
- > price.
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- And many of those academic customers (me included) will grow up to be
- "real" customers one day :>
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- Rob
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