Interesting, but I guess I should have mentioned that most our software is
useless without our hardware.
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From: George A. Madrid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: FYI
>With regard to losing revenue, you might want to take a look at this before
>releasing a program with absolutely no protection. I agree that it may not
>be worth our time trying to stay "one step ahead" of the crackers, but some
>small effort will help "keep honest people honest."
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> http://www.scrawlsoft.com/products/common/hardnose.html
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>George Madrid
>Scrawl, LLC
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>> Its been my experience that software and hardware keys only work for
honest
>> people, those who are most likely to buy your product. Some sort of
simple
>> protection keeps your good customers honest and gives crackers less of a
>> challenge. Putting strong protection into your software may invite
crackers
>> to try and crack your program (and more often than not they will
succeed).
>> My company has weighed the options and has a policy of little or no
>> protection for our software. We just refuse to support anyone we suspect
of
>> stealing our software and enforce a one copy one CPU license. So far it
>> seems to work for us, can't say if we have any lost revenues. I can say
>> more companies buy multiple copies to satisfy our licensing agreement.
>>
>> Now back to writing code...
>> Dave
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