Hi Chipp, thanks for sharing your considerations, very helpful! Tiemo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chipp Walters > Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. August 2008 06:31 > An: How to use Revolution > Betreff: Re: OT: copy protection / licensing for Mac? > > I believe most of us who develop commercial apps have our own spin on > how to do this best-- and are certainly reluctant to share our > techniques in an open list such as this. > > That said, for me there are a number of issues which go into design > considerations. > > First of all, it's important to know pirates won't buy your software, > no matter what. So, you don't 'lose' a sale when someone pirates your > software. > > That said, the honor system doesn't work either. Asking or reminding > someone to consider purchasing your app just doesn't work anymore. > > So for me, the goal is to create a copy protection system which allows > users to try my product to see if they like it, but doesn't turn them > into pirates. So, it must either disable itself or severely limit it's > core functions enough to create a threshold where they will pay to > enable them again. > > For our own products, we have one other goal, and that is to create a > one person-one license as opposed to a one person-one computer > agreement. This enables our users to use the same regcode on their > desktop and laptop, either Mac or PC. > > We tie their valid PayPal email address to their registration code, > and if they really want to give out their regcode to others, then > they'll be sending out their email address with it. > > I believe this type of license is most customer friendly and doesn't > require us to use MACaddresses or other hardware specific solutions > which are less customer friendly and require more hours of customer > support. > > HTH, > Chipp > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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