On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Paul Mansfield wrote:

> Martin Sommer wrote:
> > Ok, you're right but I hate time bombs and I could avoid to include any
> > timebombed trial software into SUSE Linux so far and I hope I can avoid
> > it in the future too. 
> 
> some ideas to allow the customer to try the software out and verify all the
> features work, but not lose revenue
> 
> * ad-ware, pause the video and inject some adverts into it every 5 minutes,
> but play whole movie
> 
> * only play the first 10 minutes of a movie
> 
> * only play three movies before reinstall required
> 
> * only play the movie at a smaller resolution, or with a watermark
> 
> * subliminal messages in the sound track saying "buy Novell shares now" or
> "send money to Martin Sommer".

Yeah, I vote for the the last point! :)

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