I'm just starting to consider this issue so glad it's being discussed. I think protection of stacks that are incorporated into other products is perhaps more to do with protecting them from end users rather than the developers who incorporate them into their products. I would gladly give the password to my stacks to another developer, but would definitely hesitate to give it to an end user. To me, it's not an issue of piracy, more of someone who doesn't know what they're doing changing my code and then expecting support for it when it crashes.
Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Chipp Walters <ch...@chipp.com> wrote: > Can't someone just lend the whole plugin? I know with altBrowser and > altSQLite and altFont, all you needed was a regcode and you were good to > go. > > I guess what I'm saying, is you're never going to stop the pirates. They > won't pay no matter what. Most of us in the commercial space know this and > we instead try and focus on stopping casual 'lenders' of software- if at > all > possible. > > My thinking with regard to copy protection is once you make it too > difficult > for your honest users, you've lost-- and they will look to other solutions. > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:51 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com > >wrote: > > > On 7/3/11 10:30 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:03 AM, John Craig<j...@splash21.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> The scripts are protected - if I can generate some revenue from the > >>> plugin, > >>> then I can dedicate time to developing it further. > >>> > >>> > >> I'm not sure exactly the correlation between scripts being protected and > >> generating revenue from them. I've been involved with this community > since > >> the very start and can't recall anyone ripping off someone else's > scripts, > >> thus causing a loss of revenue to the developer. > >> > > > > I agree we're a pretty good bunch. But I believe most or all the market > > vendors protect their scripts. Without that, it's too easy for someone to > > "lend" the script to someone else. I don't begrudge them a bit of > > protection, and it doesn't seem to have hurt sales. > > > > -- > > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode< > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > > > > > -- > Chipp Walters > CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
