Re: Rendering the Print
Re: Rendering the Print
- Subject: Re: Rendering the Print
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:19:49 +0100
On 7 Jul 2007, at 23:23, Rick McCleary wrote:
I have no interest in protecting abhorrent corporate behavior (like
Adobe's attempt to promote RF images to the detriment of a good
chunk of their own customers, and the gouging of non-US
customers.) However, it seems misguided (in the literal sense) to
blast Adobe in a thread that addresses something else altogether on
a forum where you're largely preaching to the choir. Why not hit
them straight on in a thread dedicated to the subject? Why bury
your message under the title "Rendering the Print"? My question
about this being a professional forum was directed at your posting
comments that were off-topic from the thread, not whether it is
unprofessional to criticize Adobe.
I didn't consider it off-topic.
Adobe's Technical Papers aren't the products of independent academic
research. The papers are marketing materials designed to enhance
Adobe's reputation.
A reminder that the marketing message has been undermined somewhat by
their business practices seemed appropriate to me.
There are going to be plenty of people on this list who are
completely unaware of how upset many pro photographers are with Adobe
over RF sales or the fact that we in the UK have to pay more than
double for identical products.
Additiionally, it's quite a challenge to affect corporate behavior
when the company you're targeting has a virtual monopoly on the
market. What's their incentive to change? In that situation, it's
completely ineffective to lob bombs from the back bench, hence my
suggestion of "the third way".
Again I think that you are wrong. Bitching about prices in the UK and
Europe led to thousands of customers signing a public petition. That
may have done nothing to change Adobe's behaviour this time around
but they now know that there are already 10,000 pissed off customers
across Europe.
That's a lot of customers who will be actively looking at
alternatives when Adobe pull the same stunt again in 18 months.
--
Martin Orpen
<http://www.pro-imaging.org/> International support for professional
image makers
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