Hi Lori,

The creator of the CD is not always the distributor. The distributor
could be a professional society or association. Destroying conference
proceedings for the sake of stopping the distribution of old Reader
versions seems drastic.

In fact, nobody would include a copy of the Reader in a CD if that
was the case. For example, when you publish on CD-ROM for a client,
the replication plant generally works in batches of 500's. If your
client needs 350's, he asks for 500's, proceeds to distribute the
350's and keeps the remaining CD-ROM. He can offer these to
librairies and to people who still need the content of the e-papers
perhaps a year or two after they were published. If the clients-
distributors had to destroy the remaining copies of the CD-ROM
whenever a new version of Reader has been released for more than 6
months, they would probably go back to plain old printed copies, and
goodbye PDF!

The good excuse would be getting the content of the e-papers (but not
through using an old version of the Reader that just happens to stay
there).

Why not include a self-destroy command? Count down... 3-2-1-0. You no
longer can use this installer, please visit Adobe website for a newer
version of the Reader if you want to be able read PDF files...
Besides, isn't it still possible to get old Reader versions from
Adobe website?!!!

Denise
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D. Brien <dbrien@koclas.com>
Koclas Logic Systems Ltd.
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On Oct 16, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Lori DeFurio wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Only the publisher needs to register with Adobe. The end user that is
> using their product does not need a re-distribution agreement *unless*
> the customer is planning on redistributing Adobe Reader.
>
> As far as older versions, if there is a good excuse for distributing
> older versions (i.e. your customers have Win98) you can petition Adobe
> for special request.
>
> The spirit of the agreement is that a distributor must stop new
> distribution of older versions of Adobe Reader. If there are existing
> CDs out there in the world - that is not an issue - it's new
> distribution.
>
> lori

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