Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:43:32 11/18/05
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On November 18, 2005 at 05:13:22, Robert Hollay wrote: >On November 18, 2005 at 03:30:48, Swaminathan wrote: > >>On November 18, 2005 at 01:52:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>On November 17, 2005 at 21:01:04, Swaminathan wrote: >>> >>>>Does the Fruit 2.2.1 Trial version play at full strength? >>>>From it's website the quote in the download sections states that It is available >>>>for 14 days?that means if the expiry gets over,one can again download it and use >>>>it for another 14 days and so on.So I don't see any real difference between >>>>making it free and making it available for download as shareware. >>>>Am I missing any point? >>> >>> Just nonsense >>> Kurt >> >>Why?Are you suggesting it doesn't when downloaded for the second time? >>There are some sharewares that are perfectly running when you download it after >>the expiry gets over. > > > Maybe such sharewares also exist, but I don't think the Fruit team is as >naive as that. > I've never downloaded Fruit 2.2.1 Trial, but it's likely that the first >time you install it the expiry date is set. Without reinstalling the OS you >cannot extend the expiry date. Of course, perfect protection doesn't exist. I also never downloaded trial version of fruit but I think that in principal people should be allowed to delete information from their computer and the question is if people simply cannot delete the fact that they installed fruit trial version from their computer. I think that a good way to defend trial version should not be based on information that is in the relevant computer but based on information that is in a different computer. If Fruit trial version simply copy the key of your hardware to another computer and compare it with list of keys in that computer to check that the key was not used then it seems to be a better strategy of protection. Uri
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