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Poll: What's the best approach? This poll is closed. |
| Absolutely free but with option to donate. |
17.39% |
4 |
17.39% |
| Free but with trial period for premium features. |
26.09% |
6 |
26.09% |
| Free but premium features disabled unless you purchase. |
47.83% |
11 |
47.83% |
| Shareware. 30 day trial |
8.70% |
2 |
8.70% |
| Other? Please specify. |
0% |
0 |
0% |
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RE: Best approach?
June 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm
(June 3, 2012 at 4:03 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: 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
With you so far..
Quote: 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.
And, you've lost me :S
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RE: Best approach? - by Darwinian - June 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm
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