Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Richmond,
I just went through this same thought process. I have a 30 day and
functionality limits in my product but finally accepted that it's
impossible to make them foolproof. In my case, I.m selling a $25 product so
it doesn't make sense to spend huge amounts of time to foil the efforts of
a tiny number of cheaters - the vast majority of people are honest IMHO. If
I was selling a $5000 product, I'd be inclined to strengthen my legality
checking.

That said, it seems to me that if you include your demo date substack with
your product, then if it's not there at run time, just stop execution.

Pete
On Apr 24, 2012 5:36 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/04/12 04:04, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Richmond<richmondmathewson@**gmail.com<richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Blast! I am trying to find a way so that I don't have a file "floating
>>> about" on somebody's system that they can just flush away to
>>> reset the 30 day limit on my DEMO.
>>>
>>>  I'm assuming then you must have some sort of licensing system for those
>> who
>> wish to go beyond the demo. How does this work? Surely your demo licensing
>> system must be based aound it.
>>
>> I'm out of my depth here because I only develop for a very small circle of
>> users (more like a dot really;-) so licensing isn't an issue, but I
>> thought
>> the whole concept of the Splash stack was to get around the limitation of
>> a
>> stack not being able to save to itself. Once you have a Splash-Working
>> stack arrangement you can save your rego info in an encrypted sub-stack,
>> as
>> a customProp so it isn't available to prying eyes to throw away or amend.
>>
>
> They can, however, throw away the substack (because, as far as I can work
> out, it cannot
> be a substack - so cannot be hidden inside a standalone's file structure -
> but a free-standing stack),
> at which point a standalone would recreate the stack with an updated
> time-stamp.
>
>  ______________________________**_________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at 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>
>>
>
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at 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>
>