Hello, I hope this isn't to off-topic. I have a couple questions regarding software marketing, as a lot of you are familiar with it, I'm assuming. I hope to have a program ready for distribution in a month or so, and was wondering about how marketing should work. Do I need to go through any legalities in the US to distribute and be clear of a lot of problems? I can write up a wordy licence agreement, I believe I have a couple laying around, currently. How hard would it be to spread the word, and get things set up. Also, I think I'm going to need to set up a business class paypal account so that I can deal with credit card charges and that. I'll need to find some way of distributing authorization codes automatically to new customers, which brings me to another question. I need to write some sort of authentication mechenism so that people can't just give their key out to others and they get the programs free. Any good thoughts on how this can be done? I'm thinking of making debugging really hard (throwing in a check to see if a debugger is present and killing the program if it is, optomizing, removing frame pointers), which will help a lot on cracking. Does anyone else have any other solutions for prevention and dealing with user authentication so that I can keep 1 copy of the key from distributing its self to 50 different people?
Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: [email protected] My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
