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The books are written by authors across the world. Not only does "price differentiation" exist across countries, it exists across town. If you don't believe look at the price tag of a Levi's 501 in a Sears store and the same at Neiman Marcus. In a India "price differentiation" exists across time and across the percived economic ability of the buyer. I suppose we may be computer enthusiasts but we are not micro-economists. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russell McOrmond Sent: 18 June 2002 14:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] ADOBE TO TRAIN INDIA'S LAW AGENCIES ON PIRACY ISSUES On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > only Indian Standard (Stretchable?) Time. That way M$ can make sure that it > is not sold outside India while they can mark the price down a bit. The > only way to get piracy down is to get parity btw. price with regard to the > average financial ability. We already have this concept in tech books, so > why not software? Are these books written in India, or written in the USSA? Price-differentiation between countries never works - if you try to sell the same good in different countries at different prices, you will end up with a grey-market as people export from the lower-priced country to a higher-priced one. The solution to the problem is for people in India to be purchasing software produced in India. And of course the best way to do that is with Free Software ;-) --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions http://www.flora.ca/osss2002/ "Open Source Solutions Showcase" (Past) Next: GOSLINGS (Getting Open Source and Linux INto GovernmentS) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
