Re: [MacPerl] Distributables?

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 1/28/99 at 23:48, pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) wrote:

> If you want to sell it, just say, Please Send Me Money.  You Can Use Kagi
> If You Want.  So few people pay for shareware, and software is pirated so
> much, I don't think that you would lose any money just because the source
> is available.
On the whole, you are probably correct and I guess that most shareware
authors accept that the point of diminishing returns is reached rather
quickly when screwing around with copy protection schemes.

What's annoying is that the simple ten minutes til penetration piracy barrier
that I could put into an AppleScript/FaceSpan version of my application would
take care of most of my concerns, but I can't do that in MacPerl even tho the
end product would at least be faster, if not better. Maybe I've gotten
spoiled by being able to "time bomb" the last deliverable of a custom
FileMaker system so that I know that I'll get paid out as agreed. The bomb
could be defused, of course, but that typically would cost more than making
me happy would, so it's pretty effective in dealing with the odd client who
thinks he is going to renegotiate the final payment.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
Voice: 770-565-8267  Fax: 770-971-6887



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