[A83] Re: Making Commercial apps using the freeware key

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: Making Commercial apps using the freeware key
From: Hyperbyte <hyper@hysoft-automation.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:13:51 +0200 (CEST)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010626155839.0085b040@pop.snet.net> from "Gavin Olson" at Jun 26, 2001 03:58:39 PM
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


Actually, It was just an idea and I wanted to know the caveats of it.

By "It's just hypothetical" I meant "I'm not gonna use it, but I'm interrested
if it works"



> 
> 
> At 06:37 PM 6/26/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >I just got the following idea about making commercial apps with the
> >free key. (It's just hypothetical)
> >
> >If you could check the calculator ID from within a program,
> >(1st assumption)
> >
> >then you could make some online program add the calculator ID to the end
> of the program, sign the program, and give it away.
> >
> >in the app, you could then compare the (possibly encrypted) calculator ID
> at the end of the program to the calculator id of the running calc.
> 
> I'm not seeing the point of making your own commercial apps.  THe whole
> point of doing apps was this: (1) You take advantage of otherwised unused
> program space (2) the programs you like are under a nice blue key and the
> ones that are support files are not muddling things.
> 
> 
>

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[A83] Re: Making Commercial apps using the freeware key

From: Gavin Olson <gtolson@snet.net>