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Re: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux
- From: Paul Mansfield <paul.mansfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:14:38 +0100
- Message-id: <43316ACE.4070104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Sommer wrote:
some ideas to allow the customer to try the software out and verify all the features work, but not lose revenue
* ad-ware, pause the video and inject some adverts into it every 5 minutes, but play whole movie
* only play the first 10 minutes of a movie
* only play three movies before reinstall required
* only play the movie at a smaller resolution, or with a watermark
* subliminal messages in the sound track saying "buy Novell shares now" or "send money to Martin Sommer".
(ok, I made up the last point)
Paul
Ok, you're right but I hate time bombs and I could avoid to include any timebombed trial software into SUSE Linux so far and I hope I can avoid it in the future too.
some ideas to allow the customer to try the software out and verify all the features work, but not lose revenue
* ad-ware, pause the video and inject some adverts into it every 5 minutes, but play whole movie
* only play the first 10 minutes of a movie
* only play three movies before reinstall required
* only play the movie at a smaller resolution, or with a watermark
* subliminal messages in the sound track saying "buy Novell shares now" or "send money to Martin Sommer".
(ok, I made up the last point)
Paul
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