Marty, > I'm getting ready to deploy my first serious Rev application and I'm > trying to decide on how to deploy/sell it. Should I have a > purchase-only > scenario, using a service such as Kagi (I've also set up a number of > Miva stores) or, should I have some kind of crippled version that > requires the presence of some kind of license stack for full > functionality? Or??? Anyone had any experiece with trying different > methods and found one that seemed to improve sales? I want something > streamlined and reasonably fraud-resistant. It won't be a > real expensive > program - probably $40-50 range. > > Any thoughs are appreciated,
I'm the moderator of comp.software.shareware.* The group comp.software.shareware.authors is a good place to get some answers to this. As is AISIP (http://www.aisip.com only $29.99 a year) or the ASP (http://www.aspshareware.org which is dearer at $99 a year). I was Vice President and a Board Director several years ago - but I favour AISIP now because it is extremely pleasant (atmosphere) and is moderated by a very nice lady. There are several licensing models available. For my Borland Delphi software I use Armadillo (http://www.siliconrealms.com) or ASProtect (http://www.asprotect.com ) Neither of these tools will work with Rev and of course they are Windows only tools. The design of compiled stack in Rev leaves a lot of information in ASCII text in the executable (on Windows anyway) which make hacking rather obvious (sadly). I personally would recommend reduced functionality for the demo version (it would be nice if Rev did conditional compiles) coupled with a 30 day time limit. Both can be overcome unless you do the crippling so that there are no options available in the compiled version of your stack - a separate version of your software in other words. One day I'll get Lazarus running on OSX and will be able to translate my Object Pascal to library files that can be called on OSX, Windows and *nix - but that won't happen anytime soon as configuring Lazarus on OSX is a nightmare I have not concluded. <g> Scott _______________________________________________ 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
