From: "Bob Kodadek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been programming for about 20 years now, started in > machine language and have seen and done it all since then. > I began working with PalmOS last year and feel that, unless > you are doing it for a hobby, it is a wasted effort. > So how do you protect your desktop software? I wasn't aware that desktop hardware included the unique serial number that you're asking PDA's to include. I've been programming a similar number of years and I'm surprised to hear you present this as a PDA-specific problem. Hardware piracy is a *computer* problem that hasn't been solved on other platforms in spite of serious amounts of money being thrown at the problem.
In spite of this a large number of companies manage to be profitable. You approach PDA software security the same way you'd approach the security of any other app - provide good value for money, make it easy to buy the app, provide advantages for software registration, release regular upgrades to discourage hacking, etc, etc. >From memory, desktop protection uses hardware id's available from some hardware components (drive, NIC, etc. With modern PDA's that include Bluetooth, wireless networking and the like I would have thought that something similar was possible. > One extra 25 cent chip on every device, that's all it would > take. > >From this can we assume that your '...done it all since then" doesn't include hardware engineering or hardware cost assessment? :-) There's a lot more to hardware manufacture than the cost of the chips. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
