With regard to losing revenue, you might want to take a look at this before
releasing a program with absolutely no protection. I agree that it may not
be worth our time trying to stay "one step ahead" of the crackers, but some
small effort will help "keep honest people honest."
http://www.scrawlsoft.com/products/common/hardnose.html
George Madrid
Scrawl, LLC
> Its been my experience that software and hardware keys only work for honest
> people, those who are most likely to buy your product. Some sort of simple
> protection keeps your good customers honest and gives crackers less of a
> challenge. Putting strong protection into your software may invite crackers
> to try and crack your program (and more often than not they will succeed).
> My company has weighed the options and has a policy of little or no
> protection for our software. We just refuse to support anyone we suspect of
> stealing our software and enforce a one copy one CPU license. So far it
> seems to work for us, can't say if we have any lost revenues. I can say
> more companies buy multiple copies to satisfy our licensing agreement.
>
> Now back to writing code...
> Dave
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