I'll answer your statement with the question : What is the purpose of Consumer Rights legislation and laws? At any point the consumer can simply use a different product, why do we need rights legislation and laws?
If a company gives you bad service, just go to another company. If the product is of poor quality, or isn't what you paid for, use a different product. That should never be the only answer. Let's look again at Trade laws, Monopoly laws and Anti-competitive practice laws. Again, why are these necessary? The consumer can choose on their own. Why should the law care what Microsoft did by bundling IE to Windows? Why should they care what deals Intel made with Dell...if consumers really wanted to purchase computers with AMD chips they could have, no one was forcing them to buy DELL computers. It's the same thing here. Consumers have a right to protest, they have a right to be heard. If a company suddenly makes a change that isn't in consumer's interests, then consumers have a right to say they don't like it. In my view these trade practices raise the issue of price fixing and are possible because Adobe has a virtual monopoly on these particular markets. It's a different situation to the others, though, because afaik they gained that virtual monopoly by just creating much better imaging software and marketing it better than anyone else. Some may be tempted to say as a result they can treat their customers however they please, and determine who can purchase their software and in what countries it can be sold as much as they want. Others may want to see better done, and a more egalitarian system of pricing and distribution. And will demand it. And sometimes, as in the case of the current pricing of Adobe Cloud subscriptions in Australia, they win. On 9 May 2013 15:39, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Suddenly they don't have a choice to control their costs anymore, they > > are forced to pay a fixed yearly fee. > > > I understand the frustrations of having to pay more, but I really don't get > this "forced" mentality. No-one is forcing you to do anything. There are > plenty of reasonable alternatives out there that are not Adobe products. > Many are free and not half bad (GIMP). > > Photoshop is a commercial product, and Adobe can charge whatever they want > for it. I really don't get the outrage as if there needs to be some > government welfare program or regulation as if the world is full of poor > starving pixel-eaters who can't live without it's nourishing filtery > sustenance. > > I choose not to pay for Photoshop, why don't you? > > -Cameron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
