Activation -- if its the kind where one has to apply to the manufacturers website *any more than once* for an entire version sequence including updates -- places a completely inappropriate burden on the consumer. (Can you imagine what it would mean to have to re-apply to General Motors to activate your car if you'd had to change the engine out in the boonies someplace?! And, NO, Adobe's site is NOT always reliably operational.)

To keep my system and many apps up to date and running well, I use multiple drives and clone my system and applications from a master drive that is kept "clean" and never used for daily work. If "activation" should require that I had to apply to Adobe every time this happened, I'd consider it harassingly burdensome and unacceptable.

That would be triply the case as regards my powerbook, which I only rarly -- and generally do not wish to -- connect to the internet.

I know dozens of graphics professionals -- and I'd bet there are thousands -- who would just *love* to leave Quark Xpress far behind because of the very practice that Adobe is now apparently embracing.

For many reasons, I believe Adobe should be particularly committed to their heavy users. Many of their recent practices -- including pricing of CS1 for those who had already purchased Acrobat Professional constitutes a kick in the teeth. Enouogh said!