AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

[stephen barncard]

All of Adobe's apps are tied to the computer processor #  AND check into
'headquarters' and were a PIA to re-install on CS3, especially if one had
run the demo version before. The main reason for CS4 was to try to fix
the-now cracked CS3 mess.   The Adobe solution was to recommend upgrading to
CS4.  Their best support dance for CS3 was to issue scary-looking shell
scripts that supposedly fixed things.

Shell scripts to users? Yikes.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


On 4 March 2010 09:37, Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:

> I did not mentioned that we had also some steps in between.
>
> But many of the per-user licenses can be passed on.
> I don't know how Adobe or Microsoft prevent people of passing their user
> license to other people.
>
> Tiemo
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> > bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Gaskin
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 18:00
> > An: How to use Revolution
> > Betreff: Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?
> >
> > Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
> > > In the first years our software was - in your intention - completely
> > > free of copy protection, later we implemented a copy protection on
> > some
> > > programs, which were running off the CD.
> > >
> > > We made the experience, that nobody ever thanked us the ease of use
> > and lack
> > > of licensing. Just the opposite. Just because our target market is so
> > small
> > > and lots of people know each other, our software was copied, given
> > away
> > > without control.
> >
> > "Completely free of copy protection" is very different from the
> > industry-standard per-user license keys I described, and not something
> > I
> > would advocate for any commercial product.
> >
> > In markets where piracy is an unusually serious consideration,
> > server-based activation can provide reasonable control over license key
> > redistribution.  If smartly implemented with grace periods, "phone
> > home"
> > activation should pose no inconvenience to the end-user.
> >
> > But most successful products don't even do that, they merely use
> > pre-generated keys.  Per-user license keys have made Adobe, Microsoft,
> > Apple, and most other software vendors quite profitable.
> >
> > Not having any protection at all is, IMO, only appropriate for free
> > products.  The early years of the computer industry's "shareware"
> > experiments proved that convincingly.  The difference between "free
> > demo" and "full version" need not be onerous to the user, but there
> > must
> > be some incentive to motivate the user to put in the additional effort
> > to fill out an order form.
> >
> > This is one reason why having PayPal as a payment option is so
> > valuable:
> >   it reduces the payment process to just a single password field and
> > one
> > click.
> >
> > --
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