Re: Enforcing trial software on Mac

2009-03-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 mars 09 à 03:46, Jeff Laing a écrit : I have seen a couple of fairly nice solutions, and lots of really awful ones. Generally speaking, the awful ones try to go to great lengths to be sneaky and hide files or other data in places in your computer they shouldn't be messing with. Its wor

RE: Enforcing trial software on Mac

2009-03-16 Thread Jeff Laing
> I have seen a couple of fairly nice solutions, and lots of really > awful ones. Generally speaking, the awful ones try to go to great > lengths to be sneaky and hide files or other data in places in your > computer they shouldn't be messing with. Its worth pointing out that most hacker-ty

Re: Enforcing trial software on Mac

2009-03-16 Thread Scott Anguish
On 2009-03-16, at 10:09 PM, Peter Duniho wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Chris Idou wrote: Is there any accepted, or preferred or standard way of enforcing a trial software period for a program on Mac, so that people can't just delete their preferences or something and start the trial

Re: Enforcing trial software on Mac

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Duniho
On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Chris Idou wrote: Is there any accepted, or preferred or standard way of enforcing a trial software period for a program on Mac, so that people can't just delete their preferences or something and start the trial again? Or does every developer hack their own lit

Enforcing trial software on Mac

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Idou
Is there any accepted, or preferred or standard way of enforcing a trial software period for a program on Mac, so that people can't just delete their preferences or something and start the trial again? Or does every developer hack their own little solution? (i.e. write a file to an obscure pla