InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker
Seraphim Larsen
seraphim37 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 20:33:06 PDT 2008
Well said, Jeremy!
Seraphim
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:46:29 -0700, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote:
>
> >I hardly see how your request is related to "natural
> >justice" any more or less than a request to also allow simultaneous
> >activation of the same license of FrameMaker on computers used by other
> >members of your family.
>
> <rant>
>
> Really, Dov? The first complies with the spirit, if not
> the letter, of the EULA. The second is an obvious violation.
> No difference??? Unbelievable. And just how many other
> *family members* are going to use Frame, for God's sake?
>
> Mif2Go has a very effective system of license control;
> it's called the "Honor System". It works. It's the only
> method we could find that does not interfere with usage
> by our licensed customers. We trust you.
>
> Impractical, you say? Wake up! Pirates can break *any*
> system you use in less than an hour. And broken copies
> of Adobe apps are available all over the Web; we must
> get fifty spams a day offering them. So the only folks
> your anti-piracy measures affect are your *honest* users.
>
> You might think that with such an arrangement, people
> would never buy a second license in the same company.
> Why would they, if all they had to do was copy from their
> colleague? Guess what; it doesn't happen. We have more
> license purchases for *additional* copies than for singles.
> If you treat people as honest, they *are*. If you treat
> them like criminals, well... you say more about yourself
> than about them.
>
> </rant>
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
> <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
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