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Re: Rendering the Print
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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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