Re: OT: Re: executable obfuscator?
Re: OT: Re: executable obfuscator?
- Subject: Re: OT: Re: executable obfuscator?
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:09:02 -0500
On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Andy O'Meara wrote:
I forgot to share one of the biggest methods that's helped us
completely shutdown this 'casual piracy'. We have two dists: the
free trial version of our software and the paid version. A user
can only get their hands on a paid version of our software by
paying money and getting a license code issued. The process goes
like this, and I recommend it to all shareware devs that make end-
user software:
1) Users visit our site and download the free trial version of our
software. The free trial version is a *different* build than the
paid version (complete with #if's in the code), so there's
absolutely nothing to hack or crack -- the paid-only features just
aren't there.
I understand the appeal of this, but do you have any idea how many
sales you lose because people won't buy something if the trial isn't
fully functional? I've bought software that had features only
available to licensed users, but I've also trashed trials because
they were crippled and I didn't feel I could get an accurate idea of
how useful the full product would be to me. I'm sure it depends on
the nature of the software and the limitations imposed on the trial
version, but it is a concern.
Larry
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