On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Paul Mansfield wrote:
Martin Sommer wrote:
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".
Yeah, I vote for the the last point! :) -- Dr. Martin Sommer Product Manager Consumer Products SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, D-90409 Nürnberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740 530 Fax: +49 (0) 911 740 53 575 Email: martin.sommer@suse.com ----------------------------------------------------------