(June 3, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Darwinian Wrote:(June 3, 2012 at 11:59 am)Annik Wrote: I voted free with trial of premium features. They'll get the whole, shiny version and might be more inclined to get their premium features back while simultaneously spreading the freeware version of it. I think people would be more willing to download a product they don't have to pay for or don't have to go through the trouble of torrenting.
And that's exactly what I've gone for.
Never integrate unlocking/etc into your own product that simply toggles behavior... Usually a No-op will suffice to disable. Just waiting for trouble.
Though, to imitate the what the above does, a challenge-response system that downloads a unique binary and replaces certain components via a binary patch would get precisely the same results without giving a hacker code to enable (to 'crack' the shareware version if you will).
Then you can only expose the 'free' version to the world, that 'magically' upgrades itself to the correct version.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
