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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by kitsunesoba on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:41PM (#34850846)
While I kind of agree I’m increasingly of the opinion that piracy isn’t a battle worth fighting, with pirates mostly consisting of those who wouldn’t have been customers anyway.

I have yet to publish any commercial software, but if I were I think I’d go the route of Sublime Text and the fit client Fork which as far as I know stop at local license verification. If my business were so sensitive to piracy that its existence were threatened by it I’d probably make my main product an online-only subscription instead.

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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by joshspankit on Sunday February 19, 2023 @02:28PM (#34860917)
I’m increasingly of the same opinion as well, but that choice is up to the companies and developers who make the software and if they decide to implement license verification there’s no way to do that reliably within a sandbox (unless of course it’s online-only, but then you get a whole different issue affecting offline users)
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