Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 13:54:04 EDT 2012


On 04/24/2012 07:11 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 4/24/12 10:08 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
>
>> However, I'd agree with Richard Gaskin's post that a feature limited
>> demo is generally a better marketing approach than a time limited demo.
>
> I think so too. Or even just make the program slightly annoying during 
> launch. Graphic Converter does that and its author has been supporting 
> himself for years with it, it's hugely popular. It isn't limited in 
> any way. He just inserts a 10 second wait after every launch before 
> the program becomes useable. Like most people, I used the free version 
> for a couple of years until the ten seconds got so annoying I paid up. 
> I've been paying for updates ever since.
>

Thank you everyone for such a lot of advice; obviously time-stamping is
a busted flush (and there I was, thinking I was being clever); so a 
"crippled" version
the Demo will be.

Richmond.




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