Demo Choices
Demo Choices
- Subject: Demo Choices
- From: Craig Bakalian <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:06:14 -0400
Well now, this is the question of the digital gods. Mine are all save
disabled. Yet they are not plug-ins. Let me first tell you that I
have 472 users of my midi and audio application. There are over 2,000
pirated copies out there. When a client (good or bad) registers it,
the applications phones home. Not that there is much I can do about
someone stealing my work in Tawain and Moscow.
Some teachers and not so very computer savvy people get confused by
the save disabled issue. I get emails all the time saying "Ya know it
is a great application, but it won't save my work". Some will work
for hours on a sequence, try to save and then send me a rant of an
email!
Many people freak out at the unusable demo. You would be upsetting
them greatly. The nagware, well who the hell cares, they won't pay for
it. If it is a plugin, some features disabled may not get them to pay,
for the features that they don't use may not be of value. So you are
left with the date limited demo. But, there are crackers out there
that are going to crack the app open, and POST that is right POST on a
web page the registration code, and often email each other and older
version, and on and on and on... there is no fighting it. All I do is
change the registration code every day! I have a script that cranks
out a new application with a new registration number. Then I zip it,
upload it, and notify kagi that I changed the registration. I feel
like a fool.
If you have a solution to stopping crackers, please let me know.
Choosing a demo version is just the start of your problems.
Craig Bakalian
www.eThinkingCap.com
On Apr 13, 2004, at 1:01 AM, email@hidden
wrote:
I'd also be interested to know which of the following people think
works best:
- date-limited demo (e.g. works for two weeks then dies)
- time-limited demo (e.g. works for 10 minutes every time you run it)
- crippled demo (some features disabled)
- unusable demo (e.g. audio cut-out every 10 seconds)
- nagware demo (fully featured but with an annoying splash screen, like
Graphic Converter)
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