Richard England wrote: > So who's in charge of this, FDA, probably not, FTC, don't know. Consumer > Protection?. Maybe that is the problem, no regulatory jurisdiction.... Capitalism. The law of supply and demand. Create a product. Use the broken patent system to be able to use the DCMA to limit competition by threat of legal action. Raise the price because of the virtual monopoly. What's the customer to do? Then, when legally challenged and overturned, the competition gets to come in and charge *almost* as much as the original in order to maximize *their* profit as well! The price is what the market is willing to bear. And it sucks. They practically give printers away in order to lock you into their ink/toner solution. They are now doing the same thing with laser's that thy did with ink-jet. With laser's there is more to buy than just toner (waste cartridges, drums, etc). > ~~R -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
