Re: International Pricing Policy

Hello!

When MacDonald's opens stores in another country, they also put in place local infrastructure and they are able to acquire what they need at *local* prices.

I don't agree.

Once CodeGear has produced Delphi and ship their version now they do make
their calculations and do make their profit. That's fine. Producing some thousand
additional DVDs to be sold in "third world countries" as mentioned above would
not flaw their calculactions as we are talking about a couple of dollars for each
DVD only and probably some general expenses. How many licenses of Delphi
is CodeGear selling in lets say Guinea? Zero? One?

One only could argue that buyers in Europe, US etc. would subsidise the low
price in such countries but this is something one has to accept. The other way
around, producing in these countries, paying almost nothing on wages to the
people working there, and selling such products here for tremendous high
prices (as some producer of sport shoes do) also has never been a big deal.

Viele Grüsse
Stefan Meisner

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