D beyond the specs

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 07:06:37 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> It may not be distributor greed: I was one of the founders of a 
> WordPerfect distributor in Turkey in around 1991.

Cool :-)

> I don't know whether it was the US government rules or 
> WordPerfect rules but they simply could not sell us anywhere 
> near what US consumers were paying. $500 in Turkey is still an 
> impossibly high price.

*nods*  I find it kinda interesting that the global distribution 
that came with the Internet may have made it more difficult to 
differentiate prices, both ways.  Also harder to sell with lower 
margins in 3rd world countries.  E.g. on Amazon you can now find 
cheaper reprints of textbooks targeting universities in India...

Of course, localized software (language barrier) may still be 
used to differentiate.