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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software piracy
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.222430.27519@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Jun 90 22:24:30 GMT
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In article <3174@leah.Albany.Edu>, derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. /
MacLover) writes:
> In article <1990Jun14.070422.17363@lth.se> peterm@dna.lth.se (Peter M|ller)
>  writes:
> >I hope I don't offend anyone out there by this, but I must say that
you people
> >don't know the TRUE meaning of the word "expensive software". Someone said
> >that PageMaker 4.0 costs $795 in the US, how does a standard price tag of
> >$1 800 grab you? When did you last paid $170 for a not-so-thrilling DA? How
> >about $ 4 760 *Student Price* for a SE/30? How about *no* student prices at
> >all for software (i.e. $715 for MS Word 4.0 - for a student)? OK, this may
> >be a weak excuse for software piracy, but the price policy here is *insane*!
> 
> 
>         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.
> 
Well, a lot of mail order places will sell overseas (including some not
authorized by Apple, but which sell Apple products). However, a lot of software
companies don't allow their dealers to export. I wonder why? Of course, this
doesn't stop you from asking a friendly person in the US to buy something
for you...

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu