This is what QuarkXPress has started doing and I agree that it is total bullshit. As far as I can tell Quark must have an anti-marketing department instead of a marketing department.
When hurricane Andrew hit south Florida and destroyed the buildings that some of my accounts were in Quark refused to replace their disks claiming that it was the disk that were purchased not just a license. Well if they purchased disks and not a license then you should be able to make copies and go in business selling them. Seems that some software companies want it all. Adobe did replace all disks for a mailing fee and in some cases sent them no charge.
Most of us in the design industry hate Quark, but we all use it. Well most still use it. Many are switching to Adobe InDesign, but the problem is the printers still want QuarkXPress files.
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