Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Completely OT question. Do any of you do this? The method is that the machine on first run produces a machine ID, and you then issue a license key which is tied to that ID. The software can only be run on that specific machine.
I don't bother, instead just using the more common method of machine-independent reg codes. Like I tell my customers, "We don't punish you for your good fortune of owning more than one computer." :)
In the modern world many people own more than one computer, and by choosing to have per-person licenses rather than per-machine licenses we keep our support costs down by not having to deal with angry people when they upgrade their computer or change their NIC.
I'm sure this allows a certain amount of piracy among our customers, but the cost-benefit ratio of both methods favors flexibility for the customer with our products.
In certain markets this may not always hold true. For example, games and music software are the two most pirated categories (which is especially ironic for music, given that musicians make their living from intellectual property).
So like any security consideration, you'll have to consider the relative ROI for your product.
But it may be helpful to keep in mind that security is overhead, while features are investment. So here, using minimal security lets us focus on adding features which encourage sales among honest people, the only people who ever pay for software anyway.
All software can be hacked, most within three days of release. Game companies who spend millions on security do so with the hope of postponing the inevitable c...@ck by just 60 days. Fortunately, few honest people take on the risk of downloading c...@cked copies from random sites in the PRC or Russia (home to some 90% of c...@ck sites), many of which are loaded with keyloggers and other zombieware.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv _______________________________________________ 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
