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ez002644@castor.ucdavis.edu (Eric W. Douglas) writes:

EWD> Hey, you can't blame a company for trying to protect its software 
EWD> from being violated and run on more than one machine... I personally 
EWD> don't like this, but hey, if I was in their shoes, I'd want to 
EWD> get paid for what was rightfully mine. I tend to think that Quark 
EWD> has done a fairly efficient job of copy protecting their software, 
EWD> without making it too difficult to use. 

yes, but there are still many of us out here in the real world that don't appreciate that Quark (or any company that uses any form of copy protection) starts out with the assumption that its customers are crooks.

Bad PR move.

--Adam--



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