Trial software and registering

[Thomas McGrath III]

Actually, I will not buy software that does this!!! I travel a lot and 
my primary computer is my laptop. There are hundreds of times when I'm 
just not connected.

If the software is GOOD and I want it then the best approach has always 
been for me a polite reminder. This tells me that the company who makes 
the software WANTS me as a customer and is willing to be polite about 
it. Where as being treated like I can't be trusted, I usually just 
trash the software and look else where. Unless of course it is the best 
software I've ever seen and I just gotta have it. Which is hardly ever 
the case.

FWIW

Tom

On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Mikey wrote:

> One of the nicer ways to do this now is to have your application
> "phone home" via a TCP/IP connection.  To activate the software, the
> software has to be able to connect with your server.  Every launch it
> has to reconnect to ensure that it still has privileges.  At the end
> of the time period, it gets notification that its time is up and
> that's it.

Thomas J McGrath III
3mcgrath at adelphia.net

412-831-3094
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