

Now by config file you would know that app already ran on 1 and 3 so user has messed up dates on the computer. Now after 30 days reverses the date and sets it to 2nd of month. Say user ran app on 1 and 3 day of month.


The free software costs you nothing and their good will (and maybe recommendation to others) is worth a lot.įinally, write software that people want to use and price it for its value. If someone is in love with your program so much that they're willing to break your trial limits, let them. Users with a network home directory (e.g. Whatever you do, don't use the MAC address or an other hardware ID. You might name the file something innocent if you want to obfuscate things just a bit. In this case, putting something in ~/Library/Application Support//. Go for the 80/20 solution: the easy solution that gets 80% effect for 20% effort. And they're unlikely to pay for the software anyways. Determined hackers will break all but the most over-engineered solution. This issue comes up repeatedly on the cocoa-dev mailing list and the consensus answer is always do the simplest thing possible.
