Re: Go, software activation, go!
- From: Tony Bryer <tonyb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:35:06 GMT
In article <xn0ejytk38dm8dz008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ramona van Riet
wrote:
Are you saying it is to keep honest people honest? Or, in other words,
that it serves as a deterrent?
That is an interesting view, but don't you think that honest people
don't need a deterrent to stay honest?
It's a sort of triage: splitting people into three groups: OK, lost
causes and marginal:
1. those who will do the right thing and pay up anyway, either because
they're that sort of person or it's company policy;
2. those who won't pay no matter what you do: they'll either use a
cracked or pirated version or something else, but would never part with
money (thus the spuriousness of 'piracy costs software industry $x bn'
stories); and
3. those who will not worry too much about the ethics if there's an easy
'respectable' way of getting what they want without paying: they'd be
outraged at the idea of shoplifting from CompUSA but borrowing a
friend's disk so they can install a copy on their machine is fine.
Software activation is about getting the last group to pay, knowing that
if they really have to they will.
--
Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk
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