Digital BW, The Print

I think, Wendell, that what you are confusing is a marketing ploy vs intellectual property. If Epson really wanted to profit from their creativity, rather than trying to capture the commons of the ink supply market, they would have charged what the printers are worth, not what they could use as a come-on. Also, maybe their ink prices might have been less unreasonable, so that they didn't piss-off their bulk users and throw the game to 3rd parties for the ink market.

The fact that Epson down-priced it's creative product, the printers, in no way obligates the rest of us to succumb to their transparent attempt to get us to pay for what they didn't invent - over and over and over again. The fact that they didn't charge for their true creativity implies, to me, that they really didn't value it that highly in the first place.

This has nothing to do with my artworks.

Frank

Message: 16        
   Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:44:04 -0500
   From: Wendel White <wendel@...>
Subject: Re: Re: Epson Lawsuit -- MIS

So is everyone saying that when a company invests time, creativity, and
money to invent a unique (or at least particular) design, that they should
let others use their creation and not get paid? Is that how you feel about
your artworks? 

Wendel