On 26/03/13 12:30, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
I know, that it is very unpopular to supply very strict and controlled
licence models and rely on all the nice and lovely pirates to come back to
me, but I can't confirm at all these models in my daily business.
Perhaps it is related to my client base, I don't know. But I made the
experience with two different licensing models in the last 15 years in the
same target audience (partly even with the same customers) with our
products. One product licence was very open and was based on "fairness and
following our licence model" with very low piracy protection, the other
product license is tied very strict to the hardware (wich actually has some
painful sides, but for us it's the better choice).
After having sold one or any number of licences of product 1to a dedicated
target group, we never have sold a second licence in that group (e.g. all
teachers of a school). After having sold licences of product 2 we are
constantly selling additional licences within the same target group. And no,
it doesn't depend on the product, I know that they all are using product 1
too. As I said, perhaps this is a special behavior of our target group
(teachers). In the last decades I never have met people who are less aware
of law, piracy and licensing as teachers (sorry Richmond)
Don't be sorry; I know that is a fact.
Trying to explain to a parent of twins why she should pay for 2 copies
of a student workbook, rather than just
one followed by a quick trip to the photocopy shop is an uphill, and
unproductive exercise, that only serves
to convince people I am some sort of nutcase round these parts.
Mind you, here in Bulgaria about 95% of the population are either 100%
unaware
of law, piracy and licensing, or, even if they are, couldn't care less.
I am becoming increasingly in favour of hardware tethering of software
after trying to explain
what a site licence is and ending up with zero comprehension as the
interlocutor cannot see why
they shouldn't just duplicate the individually licensed executable
across as many machines as they require.
The only problem (as was pointed out on this list) is that many machines
keep changing their Mac address
and I am unaware of any other, more permanent, hardware feature Livecode
can grab hold of.
Richmond.
Just my 2 cents
Tiemo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
von Timothy Miller
Gesendet: Samstag, 16. März 2013 21:31
An: How to use LiveCode
Betreff: Re: serial numbers on standalones
On Mar 16, 2013, at 12:00 PM, kee nethery <k...@kagi.com> wrote:
The people who make a lot of money selling software are those that focus
on how to get more people to use their software, not those who focus on
how
to get less people to use their software.
The "get more people" group occasionally will "crack" their software and
upload that crack to a crack site so that people can steal their software.
Having a crack shows that someone cared enough about the software to spend
time to crack it because of the street cred that would give them. No one
cracks lame software thus … this software must not be lame. In addition,
no
one wants to be the second person to crack some software so other cracks
don't appear.
Secondly, most people that pirate software don't really use it. And if
they do, you've just had someone experience your software and figure out
what it is good for. People like me who pay for software, ask for
recommendations, and I'm fairly certain that many of the recommendations
come from people who have pirated software. Pirates can be your
advertising
channel.
Finally, the crack if the pirate is still using the cracked software
after 6 months, they can be converted into a buyer. It has some weird bug
that pops up. The solution to that specific bug is to buy the upgrade. If
someone running a cracked version gets that error message, they are using
it for real and they will frequently pay for the upgrade.
Kee Nethery
Wow! You really nailed it. I've read similar commentaries, but yours is
clear and concise.
I'm working on a book, thinking about self-publishing, selling to the
public from a website, while taking care to maintain control of the
copyright, maybe going with a commercial publisher later, if it's
successful. I've feared piracy, heard both sides of the debate.
You've convinced me (unless someone later on this thread changes my mind).
With software, it seems, one way to limit piracy damage is to upgrade
routinely. With literature, it might help to release periodic revisions,
or
regularly add new material.
Cheers,
Tim Miller
_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
subscription preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
