Re: Registration Code
Re: Registration Code
- Subject: Re: Registration Code
- From: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:46:30 +0100
On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:46 PM, Will Mason wrote:
My main point in my original post was to disagree with the guy who was
saying that we should stop bothering trying to hide keys and just write
good software. That wasn't you, was it? :)
No, that wasn't me ;) Though I released TextMate 6 weeks ago, and it
seems that people will pay for shareware on the Mac. I think more than
half buy a license weeks before their evaluation version times out (and
I didn't do any startup delay in TM to "motivate" people).
So there is some truth to "write good software and ignore piracy".
I've seen two cracks, and I think it's unrealistic to really get users
of these as paying customers. I base this on a) one "crack" was a
run-time patch, and I made it go to the "purchase" web page when it was
used (in the next version), and only one person actually did then
purchase it and b) I still get a lot of version checks from the 1.0
version, despite 1.0.2b5 being the latest with quite a lot of
improvements, bug fixes a.s.o., but I take it the 1.0 clients are
because they only have a crack for the 1.0 release, and they'd rather
use the older version than pay for the new, which makes me think they'd
probably do a lot to not pay for the product (e.g. reset the trial
period each time it runs out etc.).
By the way, I like the idea in the web page you sent of putting the
public key in the app and keeping the private key under your mattress.
Yes, this is the approach I'm using with TextMate. I haven't yet heard
of any fake serials, but I haven't been looking myself for these
either.
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