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From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive International Macs
Message-ID: <22009@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 7 Dec 90 01:10:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.094856.3679@csc.anu.oz.au> <1990Dec5.004655.20387@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Dec5.004655.20387@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>How about starting a political campaign against international price fixing?
>The following changes might help:
>2. make it illegal to refuse service / support to anyone who imports
>   through "unofficial" channels (preferably, make the concept of
>   sole distributor/sole importer illegal as a monopolistic practice)

I think there are differences between software and hardware sales.  If
a company has to pay someone to localize the product, and do tech support,
it makes sense for them to want to get some return for that investment.
There is a value for the customer, rather than a rip-off.
 
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