RE: Adobe adds product activation

[Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>]

When Lotus 1-2-3 was the only game in town, the had a piracy-prevention
"tool" that was far less onerous than the activation procedure now required
by msft et al.  if you wanted to use a personal copy of 1-2-3 on your
computer at work and continue at home (or the equivalent with a laptop), you
had to "uninstall" 1-2-3 from one computer and re-install it on the other
computer.  When Excel, Quattro Pro, and other spreadsheets showed up on the
scene, Lotus magically dropped the copy protection scheme.  Now, for all
intents and purposes, most users have no choice in what general business
software they use (either their company decides on msft, or they have to be
perfectly compatible with msft for outside distribution).  No choice?  No
problem!  Copy protection is back.  And now, I guess we have to buy THREE
copies of the software for a single user to move from work desktop to home
desktop to laptop.  The joys of being an 800-pound gorilla.

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