Timbuktu works the same way. You can have copies of the original spread all over your LAN, but when you open a client, it checks to see that no other client with the same serial number is open at the same time. Quite handy unless someone has left a copy running and you have to find it.

Contextual morality?
 

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I remember when I studied art, I used a considerable amount of my money to purchase some of the best drawing and watercolour paper available. There’s a huge difference between first-rate and second-rate.

Today my philosophy is simple: I pay for all the tools I use to generate income. I also make a point of purchasing software that gives me and my kids significant recreational pleasure.

On the other hand, I readily admit to having had PhotoShop installed on my Mac at one point, albeit for the express purpose of opening PhotoShop files that should have been PDFs. That’s gone. Besides, I learned that there were alternative ways to open the files in question. Where? Right here, thanks to the good advice of a long-time Forum member.

It does seem to me that Adobe is, indeed, pursuing a sensible user-centric policy.

University students with low budgets may be an exception. I certainly don’t think that should be denounced as piracy bleeding away good profits. In fact I’m convinced that software developing comanies will eventually earn a nice return as students addicted to good software turn professional and pay for their tools. Microsoft seems to practice a similar policy in developing countries. That, too, is sensible and in the long term self-serving.

So I do think there is something to be said for context here. Not much, but something... :cool: