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From: hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Subject: Re: An end to the Quark debate
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.192405.23419@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
References: <13228@aggie.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 19:24:05 GMT

I work for a major danish Apple Center, and I have been out in the field
and installed 10 copies of QuarkXPress. I HATE IT. Why do they not at
least sell packages that can be installed on any number of machines, and
checks how many copies of the same serial number is currently running ?

I used a few hours installing this, and filled out quite a lot of copies
of their market research forms. (Untill I found out to use spaces).
The customer will have to to the final re-installation when the new non-
protected discs comes return. AND he must have individual backup of the
program for every single machine in the network. No easy reinstallation
from the server.

Copy protection is good (and fun to break :-) ), but NOT if the user can
see or feel it. Neither if it gives many problems to the administrator
who often does not have the time to take care of such things. Multi-user
license  with one serial number per packet is OK.

/* BTW: One of out customers broke the protection on Quark before he got
the original unprotected version. So it wont help that much */

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I live in Denmark, and are responsible for whatever I do.
I have no relations to the Washington University.
They just donate the necesary CPU-time and diskspace.
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