Re: Licences & trial concepts
Re: Licences & trial concepts
- Subject: Re: Licences & trial concepts
- From: Phil Faber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:30:58 +0100
On 9.4.2006, at 22:16, Phil Faber wrote:
I've often thought the best idea is to have a serial number that
needs to be updated once every 6 months or so. All registered
users then get eMailed the new number. This means even if someone
gets holds of an old serial number, (a) it probably won't work any
more and (b) even if it does, it eventually won't any more!
... as a user, hearing of this scheme, I would *immediately* go to
buy a competing product instead.
Paying for an app, I wanna be able to use it, even if my mail
changes or I decide to quit communicating on Inet at all. Even if
the app was e-mail-bound itself, still the former applies. Also, I
wanna be able to get the app from archives and open my archived
document without any problem even if I haven't used the damned
thing for ten years. No way I would pay a brass farthing for
something like this.
It was only an idea .... (!)
(I consider myself well & truly told off!)
Seriously though, from the other end of the scale, I remember the
'old days' when Wordstar ( http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/
aa030199.htm ) became the first successful commercial word processor,
and MUCH of its commercial success came from the fact that it DIDN'T
have any form of copy protection, serial number, etc. As a result,
lots of people made illegal copies [which put it into wide-use] and
that led to lots of other people buying LEGAL copies [because
'everybody else' used it].
Now I'll shut up about this before someone points out that I've moved
off the subject of Cocoa...
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