Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
George Lober wrote:
The few that caught my eye were very basic, and not workable with closed
source commercial software.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fixinst/
http://autopackage.org/
We looked at projects like AutoPackage (I really liked this one),
ZeroInstall, etc... All nice, but unfortunately they first require a
"runtime" to be installed *before* you can install *.package files. That's
no good, because not a single mainstream distro comes standard with those
runtime packages pre-installed.
The Installer itself shouldn't have such requirements, it should just run.
Besides the deployment issues, another thing that discourages me from
writing software for Linux is the virtual non existence of anti-cracking
software.
I know what you mean. We flew 1200km to the biggest Security Confrence in
South Africa and spoke to every single vendor there. Not one had
"anti-cracking" security software for Linux. Windows sure, but not Linux.
So we had to implemented that ourselves. We can now lease software, lock to
hardware, xx-day evaluation, etc... Unfortunately that code is not open
source.
The one I know about is called FlexNet, by ROVI (previously
MacroVision). It does support multiple platforms including Linux:
http://www.rovicorp.com/company/11082.htm
http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/flexnet-publisher/features.htm
but is a big league mega buck solution. Four years back when I inquired
about cost, it was several thousands of dollars.
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