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Re:Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps by ddevault on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:54PM (#23011121)
Don't forget that (and this has been mentioned four times now in this thread) you can sell open source software. No need to beg for donations. Charge for the software and for the source code.
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Re:Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps by mwcampbell on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:07PM (#23011275)
But then as soon as a paying customer exercises freedom 2 and helps their neighbors by redistributing the software on the Internet, the vendor is most likely screwed. Particularly if they developed a great piece of end-user software that doesn't need support, training, hosting, or any other service to go with it.
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Re:Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps by ddevault on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:12PM (#23011336)
Has this ever been shown to happen in practice? The vendor is the only one who can provide a guarantee that the distribution is genuine (i.e. not tampered with), provide timely updates, security notices, etc.
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