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Originally Posted by cybmole
why not go with the donations system as calibre does, rather than try to outwit those who want to pirate a one-dollar app, & who will see anything you do as a challenge, not a barrier ?
Then there's no unlocker, no licence verification stuff to code, no demo versions to maintain....
maybe a poll here would give a clue as to what &% would donate voluntarily ?
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Sorry, but I have no faith that given the number of CC users that we could depend on a donation system. Calibre has millions of active users, so small numbers can lead to large results. Perhaps I am wrong, but once that experiment has started there is no way to back out of it. And finally, doing such a thing would be unfair to all the current purchasers who bought in good faith.
We already know that somewhere between 30% and 50% of CC users are running pirated versions. That says something about the willingness of a significant number of people to pay even a small amount of money for something they want, and about their moral position on theft. Oh, I forgot. Pirating software isn't stealing because it is only bits. How silly of me.
Bottom line: we aren't going there. No way, no how.