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Daily Nebraskan: ‘Cash-strapped’ Students Flock to Purchase XP

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2002

“‘It’s just awesome that we’ve had such a large response,’ he
said. ‘The more we take advantage of it, the more staggering our
savings as students will be.’

“But not all students are pleased with the contract.

“Cesar Delgado, chairman of the Husker Linux Users Group, said
the contract was unfair to students who didn’t want to take
advantage of it because they would have to pay the increase in
student technology fees that pays for the contract as well…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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