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From: ez002644@castor.ucdavis.edu (Eric W. Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: An end to the Quark debate
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Date: 11 Jun 91 07:18:52 GMT
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Reply-To: ez002644@castor.ucdavis.edu (Eric W. Douglas)
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Okay, let's put an end to Quark installer debate...

I by in no means meant to imply that Quark defaults in believing
that all of its customers are crooks. Quark, IMO, is taking a 
realistic viewpoint in how they distribute their software and how
it works. 

Scenario: I run XPress on a machine at work. I leave XPress running
on it, while I move to another machine. I try to run XPress on 
another machine for whatever reason. This is the same copy of XPress,
with the same serial number. At this point, I have already violated
one stipulation in the Software License Agreement, which states:
(paraphrased) "This program shall not be run on more than one individual
machine at a time". If you check into it... I think a lot of you will
see that much of your commercial software has this same stipulation.
And hey, we're ALL guilty of it... but just because I'm trying to 
stretch my buck, doesn't mean that I am a crook, a fiend, etc... and
I don't think that Quark thinks this either. They are merely trying
to discourage anyone from breaking their License Agreements. If I
were to sell software commercially, I'd want to get what was damn
well coming to me... wouldn't you?

(BTW: If you did exactly what I stated above, XPress would display
a dialog telling you that another copy of XPress was found with the
same serial number, then it would quit. Nothing nasty, just 
gracefully exits.)

As far as Quark requesting you insert original unlocked master diskettes,
that is merely to simplify the registration process.

If you purchase XPress, and follow the installation instructions,
you'll be DTP'ing in less than 10 minutes. Plus, this is the
extra bonus guys: XPress uses Apple printer drivers! Yeah, no
waiting for your LaserWriter to reinitialize itself when you
switch applications! (Sorry, this always annoyed me about PM)

hope this clears things up-
--eric


Eric W. Douglas                        *  ericd@caticsuf.csufresno.edu
Dept. of Computer Science              *  ericd@yosemite.csufresno.edu
California State University, Fresno    *  ez002644@deneb.ucdavis.edu