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by PhillyMJS on Sun Dec 28, 2003 at 11:33:59 AM PDT

I just installed the entire CS series of apps on some Macs at a client's and I didn't see anything about activation mentioned in/on any of them. Perhaps Adobe only tacked this onto the individual-license copies, because the copies I installed had multi-user license codes.

Even multi-user license stuff with Quark is a hassle, there's some sort of keyserver app that needs to be run to manage the licenses and make sure Quark gets every dime that's coming to them-- literally. It apparently lets you launch more copies of Quark than you have a license for, phones home to report your usage to Quark, who then BILLS you for any overages. Do a search for "Quark License Server" in Google Groups and you'll see what I'm talking about. People are pissed-- and apparently Quark started doing it with version 5 early this year, so I'm glad my one client who upgraded to 5 got in under the wire when they were still issuing multi-user license codes for it.
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A junk faxer paid for my new Power Mac G5.
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