Why aren't more companies moving to other alternatives.
Companies are worried about risk. All of these predatory companies are seen as having the market share and therefore have been assessed as having a low risk. Alternatives have a lesser market share and...
View ArticleCopy the French
In the days when Japanese TV's were undercutting French products, the French in true fashion did not prohibit or tax these products, but forced importers to transport the items to a single customs...
View ArticleIts costing Software manufacturers.
The question I ask is this. Have these opportunistic manufacturers considered how much money they have lost due to unaffordable prices? Many people I know would have paid for the software to be...
View ArticleMarket forces, free trade, and arrogance.
It doesn't yet seem to get through the heads of these corporate apologists that all their bleatings about market forces and supply and demand are absolute crap. 1. Can I compete in selling a copy of...
View ArticleMicro$oft
How they can sell anything when Ubuntu is available amazes me every day. Even my 88 year old mother uses an iPad and has never touched Windows. I need to get computer based work done, so an iPad won't...
View ArticleYou get hit on software...
we get hit on prescription drugs. And don't think that anyone in the US thinks this isn't a blatant case of the manufacturers paying off the legislators that write laws to protect them. Don't forget...
View Articleyou dont need another reseller, you need another provider
Selling Windows cheaper than Microsoft is not the correct approach, MS own and develop their products, so you have to go to them for their products, either directly or via a reseller. Comparing this to...
View ArticleEasy solution.
Get a VPN account with an exit point in a cheaper country and download away. I doubt it is illegal, but certainly not above board. Then again, these companies aren't playing fair either, so why fight...
View ArticlePricing
I live in the US and have traveled to Australia a number of times on business. My overall impression is that almost EVERYTHING in Australia is more expensive. My best guess for that was freight costs...
View ArticleThe Australians are not fools.
They are the same as the Brits, the French, the Germans and whoever else you like to name outside of the US.Microsoft and others, abuse their prominence and rip off every country they can. In the UK,...
View ArticleMakes sense to me
Arctic Cat did the same thing to us.In America, you could buy the sled for 6k, the same sled 100km north across the border was 14k.It was actually more profitable to go south, and buy from another...
View ArticleBox vs. download
The pricing difference between a boxed version of the software and a downloaded edition is ridiculous. What do you really get with the box? A DVD or 2 or 3. Nobody packs in a manual anymore. So what...
View ArticleWe live in a global free market now
So, for one thing, these companies are not "American", even if they take subsidies/handouts/bailouts funded by American taxpayers.And since it is a free market, they can charge what they like, add...
View ArticleAussies have a choice
Vote with your feet, Linux is free and there are plenty of free tools to go with it.
View ArticleSorry but it is Illegal
The difference is that as a 1 off you are likely to get away with it but if it's a business you are in a world of hurt.One company here in AU bought OEM Product from Microsoft in Singapore imported it...
View ArticleBelow a Few Options for Bypassing Geoblocks
http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/computers-and-online/networking-and-internet/shopping-online/navigating-online-geoblocks/page/how-to-circumvent-geoblocks.aspxhttp://www.ustooz.comhttp://www....
View ArticleWe just pirate everything
Given we are one of the largest pirates in the world I would suggest people are voting with their...
View Article50% GST?
I don't think so.This is not a VAT issue, mate... this is the Apple/MS/Adobe triumvirate gouging us, laughing about how foolish we are as they cart off our hard-earned to the bank. I had a patient...
View ArticleAnd even for those who need to run Windows software...
... for the macros or whatever, there's always virtual machines. This is indeed a good solution for an industry that has an investment in Windows licences and solutions developed in Windows software....
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