Re: Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:30:23 -0800, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: There are various sound business reasons for charging different prices for software in different countries. I can't even imagine what those might be. Localization? Internationalization? With the number of

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Alan T Litchfield
I have complained on this list before about price gouging by Adobe, but this article (albeit about music, refers to Adobe too) is interesting in that my concerns have been noted by others. What is also interesting is the big players, MS, Adobe and Apple are being called to account by a

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Sorry, link disappeared. Thanks Nadine. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1=10867173 Alan On 23/02/13 9:23 AM, Alan T Litchfield wrote: > I have complained on this list before about price gouging by Adobe, but > this article (albeit about music, refers to Adobe too) is

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Helen Borrie
At 09:23 a.m. 23/02/2013, Alan T Litchfield wrote: >I have complained on this list before about price gouging by Adobe, but this >article (albeit about music, refers to Adobe too) is interesting in that my >concerns have been noted by others. Actually, Shatanu Narayen gave a crazy press

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Alan T Litchfield
!!! It is of benefit to customers to be gouged whilst buying "Creative Cloud" and it is "phenomenal value to customers"??? Methinks not, but maybe I am not of their future market. Alan On 23/02/13 12:24 PM, Helen Borrie wrote: > At 09:23 a.m. 23/02/2013, Alan T Litchfield wrote: >> I have

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Alan T Litchfield
On 23/02/13 9:30 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > What article? See following posts > > There are various sound business reasons for charging different prices > for software in different countries. shure. Easy to say when you're not on the receiving end. Alan

Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:30:23 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >There are various sound business reasons for charging >different prices for software in different countries. I can't even imagine what those might be. Localization? Internationalization? With the number of languages used by people