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/ > _______________________________________________ > >