On 7/29/17 8:47 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Phil Davis via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>
wrote:
You could distribute your product on flash drives and require that
they be plugged in during use. Each flash drive (thumb drive,
whatever) has a unique ID in its firmware that the OS (and
therefore LC) can access
These scheme went away for a reason: they cost more users that they
created revenue.
Right. It's entirely inconvenient, cumbersome, restrictive and therefore
unacceptable to a modern user. They'll look for a different product
that's easier to use. But technically speaking, it does work. :-)
Phil
The extreme case was the death of visicalc to Lotus 1-2-3. it wasn't
because of any program edger or feature; it was that visicalc refused
to make it installable on hard disk, as they would lose their
floppy-based copy protection . . . (most of these used a deliberate
"flaw" that would cause an error that could be checked; many Apple ][
schemes wrote on half-tracks, and I think it was visicalc that burned
holes in the media with lasers at specified points]
--
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462
--
Phil Davis
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