Cost of software charged outside US borders

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Thanks for the link, Alan. I knew that people in Australia and NZ got charged way more for music. I forgot about the software thing. Hurray for Australia for being proactive about the issue. We see a similar thing here in Canada, especially with the price of books.

Nadine


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> From: Alan T Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 3:58:15 PM
>Subject: Re: Cost of software charged outside US borders
> 
>Sorry, link disappeared. Thanks Nadine.
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>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10867173
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>Alan
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>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 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 parliamentary inquiry in Australia for
>> price discrepancies for bits and bytes that are merely downloaded.
>>
>> I hope for more realistic charges from Adobe in the future, but well...
>>
>> Alan
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