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From: peterm@dna.lth.se (Peter M|ller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software piracy
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.065313.29350@lth.se>
Date: 15 Jun 90 06:53:13 GMT
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In article <3174@leah.Albany.Edu> derek@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (Derek L. / MacLover) writes:
>
>        My god, at those prices, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to fly
>to the U.S. and buy a bunch of products in bulk -- say, for you and a bunch    
>of friends -- and bring them back home?  I'm not speaking solely of software
>here, it applies to hardware just as much.
>
>						Derek L.
>

Me, my (also) poor friends and a lot of small companies does that. I bougth my
62 MB hardy for $1100 (total cost: s/h + taxes etc.) from USA. For the same
amount of $$ I could buy a 20 MB hardy *student price* here in Sweden. To
be honest, I'm afraid that the big companies dont care about the prices, and
that's why Apple and the gang can keep the high prices. But it's a good ground
for growing software piracy!


Peter Moller
Lund Institute of Technology - Sweden