Comment Re:The solution is not new laws. (Score 1) 465
The solution is all you people who want laws, throw your money into a corporation, and COMPETE.
Um, isn't that what the ink cart resellers are trying to do? That is, until the printer manufacturers unfairly subsume the ink cart market by eliminating the possibility of competition. (by including "killer" chips, etc.)
When corporations are able to dictate the terms of a market, it ceases to be free, and can therefore not correct itself.
Laws that prevent these controlling actions serve, ironically, to protect the libertarian ideal of a "free market," where consumers remain free to determine market leaders based upon quality and price. (As opposed to having the market artificially regulated on price by different government laws, or artificially eliminated altogether by corporations.)
Um, isn't that what the ink cart resellers are trying to do? That is, until the printer manufacturers unfairly subsume the ink cart market by eliminating the possibility of competition. (by including "killer" chips, etc.)
When corporations are able to dictate the terms of a market, it ceases to be free, and can therefore not correct itself.
Laws that prevent these controlling actions serve, ironically, to protect the libertarian ideal of a "free market," where consumers remain free to determine market leaders based upon quality and price. (As opposed to having the market artificially regulated on price by different government laws, or artificially eliminated altogether by corporations.)
