Well, indeed it's better than the hour is spent to provide better apps for Sailfish than to do some freaky copy-protection, finally broken by some talented hacker (If iOS is jailbroken, WAT in Win7 broken, why should Jolla's library avoid that?)
... Or to spend this hour to bring xwayland! ;) -- Marcin 2013/11/8 Attila Csipa <q...@csipa.in.rs> > On 07-Nov-13 17:31, Michal Jerz wrote: > >> Well, as Ronni wrote, using their copy-protection library is going to be >> entirely OPTIONAL, so its existence should not hurt anyone.... >> > > That will depend on what it actually does, and what kind of support it > requires from the system. At the most benign level it can just try to > figure out if the IMEI is authorized and such, at worst, it can interfere > with system activities (how you guarantee a chain of trust if your > copy-protection library relies on calls to user-replaceable parts of the > system?). > > > Rather than studying any researches, I'd prefer to simply give it a try >> myself and see if it makes any difference for me. After two years with the >> > > That's also a way of research :) > > > Nokia Store preventing use of any protection, I'd really like to at least >> TRY and see what difference it can make. >> > > Certainly, I'm not implying what other developers must or must not do - > everyone is free to make their own business decisions, good or bad (and > since I still didn't earn a million $ by selling apps, I will not claim to > be a monetization guru :). I'm just baffled at just how hellbent some > people are on reducing the number of pirated copies without fully > understanding the cost of development and dynamics of app-stores. And every > hour a Jolla engineer (or 3rd party dev) spends devising or employing a > copy-protection scheme is an hour that he's not putting towards other parts > of the platform or his/her apps. > > > One thing I know for sure is that in 2013, after all those who used to >> crack >> and release Symbian 'warez' got disinterested in the dying platform, sales >> of my Symbian applications actually noticeably INCREASED, despite the >> rapidly shrinking user base. So there must be some correlation between >> these >> things... >> > > Again, without proper context and research, the origin of that correlation > might not be obvious (Was legally buying it in the beginning hard or an > obstacle? Did Nokia introduce carrier billing or better payment coverage in > some markets along the way?). The same applies here. I agree there is an > inflection point, where the platform is too small for real piracy to exist, > but then the question is - who wants to remain a small player? And if you > get big, that scheme will not help you anyway, so why make it? > > Best regards, > Attila Csipa > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >
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