Hi Robert et al.
I think there are two factors you must consider.
1) Price
How much are you going to charge for the app? If it's under $150, then
simple schemes should work. IMO, most people who want to rip you off,
will. What you want is to 'nudge' users from the free/demo/trial version
to the 'paid for' version.
2) License type
This is actually step-in-step with price. Just about all of Altuit's
products are licensed to USERS, not COMPUTERS. I believe this is a much
fairer license, and one I would rather use as a consumer. Robert, you
and others have tried to create a regCode tied to hardware. While this
is fine for high priced software, IMO, it hurts only your paying
customers. Say a hard disk goes out, or a motherboard, then they can't
install your product. Say they buy a new machine and donate the old one
to the needy. They can no longer install/use your product. Say they have
a desktop and a laptop, they can only install it on one. This type of
license is more 'customer friendly' while also encouraging sales.
I know you can offer them 'multiple keys'-- like MS Office does. Still,
it is a pain to be a paying customer and ask for a new key, or know you
only have 3 of them.
If someone wants to steal your software, they will. But making it
'harder' on paying customers, IMO, is not good business. Just my 2 cents.
best,
Chipp
Robert J. Earp wrote:
We use embedded code to get the drive serial number the app is loaded on
(running from) and scramble it via an algorithm to generate a "challenge
key", which we then ask the customer for when registering the product.
We then have a little app in-house that generates the unlock key from
the challenge key, this app is also a database that keeps track of whom
has got what keys. If it's a downloaded copy we know who purchased it
and will log the challenge and resulting unlock keys in case somebody
"looses" their unlock key.
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