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There is no entitlement to it, but we're not talking of a free market. Adobe has a legal privilege to punish retailers who may undercut them via "parallel impor
by iwwr 13y ago
There is no entitlement to it, but we're not talking of a free market. Adobe has a legal privilege to punish retailers who may undercut them via "parallel import" and it's a crime to circumvent DRM. Without those legal privileges, a free market would work by bringing prices of like goods in line.
- inopinatus 13y agoPhotoshop is neither a commodity nor an essential good; please explain why a free market needs to exist for it.
- billpg 13y agoPlease explain why a free market shouldn't exist for Photoshop?
- inopinatus 13y agoI didn't say it shouldn't; I'm suggesting there's no reason why it must.
- PeterisP 13y agoAustralian voters desiring a free market for Photoshop in Australia indisputably is a good reason for that.
- inopinatus 13y agoIs not a good reason. People will always vote themselves more bread & circuses.
- billpg 13y agoIt seems (to me) that there should be a good reason before a restraint is place on trade. I can get behind restraints on food prices, but Photoshop?