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From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: An end to the Quark debate
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.170527.5221@solbourne.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 17:05:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.192405.23419@wuarchive.wustl.edu> hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) writes:
 >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.

Unless you're installing ancient copies of Quark or it's different overseas,
this is not true.  Once you install Xpress 3.0 you can copy it to any system
you want any time you want - no problems, no hassles, they all just have the
same serial number and the user's name/company on them.  Quark hasn't required
you to wait for an unprotected disk since Xpress 2.0.  Yes, it is a bit of
a hassle to have to retain multiple backup copies, though.

 >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.

Quark doesn't work this way, though - they work on a one serial number per
user basis.  Among other things this allows them to track who's paid for
extended support :-)  One nice thing about doing things the way they do is that
every user gets a copy of the docs.
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