Adobe Considers Withdrawing from Asian Markets 507
Max Groff writes "This brief ZDNet article (printer-friendly version) describes how Adobe is considering leaving its Asian markets due to the apparently high levels of piracy across the Pacific. This change would not only cut off the marketing of Adobe products to Asian markets, but also halt the development of much of the company's Asian-language software."
Re:Go for it (Score:3, Informative)
Asia *is* a big market, but piracy apparently makes it much smaller. They're leaving because the real market (the one that buys their products, from them) is too small. Any other company coming in will have exactly the same market Adobe has, and they will face the same problem.
Re:Uh? (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:open your eye (Score:1, Informative)
in HK are forced to buy numerous copies of
software from BSA member due to the new
IP law. The situation here is better than most US
company that buy one copy of Photoshop and install in every machine, right?
Re:China is not a very impressive market (Score:2, Informative)
China does not have a population of 3 billion yet. The 2000 census number was 1.29533 billion.
Re:Proprietary formats should die, anyway (Score:2, Informative)
PDF is a very widely used standard. In fact, its about the only standard for exchanging high quality print documents. And yes,
While PDF may be a proprietary file format, you do not need Adobe software to create or view PDF files. Mac OS X creates and views PDFs with the default - and Adobe free - default install. It just so happens that Adobe currently produces the best software for creating and viewing PDFs.
I'd tell you to take your open source bigotry elsewhere, but this is slashdot...