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<blockquote data-quote="Per Søvik" data-source="post: 84431" data-attributes="member: 1285"><p>Re: Competition: fair/unfair</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm sure I would feel different than Helge and Kristian, allthough Helge is active in a semi-charity (I think) <a href="http://www.musikkutstyrsordningen.no/" target="_blank">program</a> that provides certain types of venues with sound equipment, thus "undermining" those who would earn a profit supplying same venues. While I would think it would be somewhat wrong of NRK to go into competition in a field that was outside of their regular area of service, using their already paid for resources to generate profit that would indirectly benefit the taxpayers and licence payers would not in my mind be such a bad idea. Politicians in the US and EU seems to think that free market is such a good idea that one needs to regulate that freedom by restricting those who have gained an "advantage" in that "free" market, wether it is breaking up Bell, insisting that a purchaser can't give preferential treatment to local business, or deciding that lowest bidder always wins even if what the lowest bidder is providing is not the equipment you really want.</p><p>One thing is Live Nation putting out tender for sound for a concert, another thing completely is a charity or a school putting on a show. When young, local artists no longer gets to perform because the cost of performing prevents them from performing, culture suffers. </p><p>When someone is pocketing the profits, by all means let them pay for what it costs to rent a "real" company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Per Søvik, post: 84431, member: 1285"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair I'm sure I would feel different than Helge and Kristian, allthough Helge is active in a semi-charity (I think) [URL="http://www.musikkutstyrsordningen.no/"]program[/URL] that provides certain types of venues with sound equipment, thus "undermining" those who would earn a profit supplying same venues. While I would think it would be somewhat wrong of NRK to go into competition in a field that was outside of their regular area of service, using their already paid for resources to generate profit that would indirectly benefit the taxpayers and licence payers would not in my mind be such a bad idea. Politicians in the US and EU seems to think that free market is such a good idea that one needs to regulate that freedom by restricting those who have gained an "advantage" in that "free" market, wether it is breaking up Bell, insisting that a purchaser can't give preferential treatment to local business, or deciding that lowest bidder always wins even if what the lowest bidder is providing is not the equipment you really want. One thing is Live Nation putting out tender for sound for a concert, another thing completely is a charity or a school putting on a show. When young, local artists no longer gets to perform because the cost of performing prevents them from performing, culture suffers. When someone is pocketing the profits, by all means let them pay for what it costs to rent a "real" company. [/QUOTE]
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