... wise words reflecting real life experience !ghisler wrote:... your goal isn't to minimize unregistered users - your goal should be to maximize registered users!
It took me half a year of "day to day operation" with WinCmd (now TotalCmd) for testing its functionality forth and back until I found that it is the most powerful tool and almost perfect !
Then registered it, once for private use and then several additional for corporate use.
And now after 5 years of daily usage I still find new use cases were other tools are quite weak or useless.
No chance if there would have been any time restricted usage !
Just knowing that you find the most valuable features of a full version at the last day of a trial period with no really chance for evaluating it.
Or you need a feature to solve a serious problem just a day after the trial period is over ...
Any effort for a strong protection is useless because it will be cracked anyway ... if it is worth to crack.
Sure it makes a difference if the program is mainly for private purpose, so nowadays licensing is a question of honour ...
