You should consider a lower price, here is why
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:06 am
First of all: I will probably buy this tool. I just started using and testing it, and it seems to do a good job -- right now, I'm pretty sure it is my ONLY (!) option for playing my legally-bought bluray discs on my linux desktop system, as long as they use MKBv-11 or newer.
But, considering the price, i really fear that it will soon disappear. Because it won't sell and the authors will abandon it, frustrated about cracked copies and all. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how the linux version 1.4.2 implements the shareware counter (and no, i will NOT share this info, don't even ask...). So, please, for the future of this great tool: adjust it's price in a way that people won't start to feel it could be "fair" to just work around the protection rather than buying it.
And one general word about the "value" of software. I'm a software developer myself and I have to say, there's a big difference between the value for the developer and that for the customer. For the developer, it's all the time put into it, usually a very high value. But the value for the consumer is just measured by the "usefulnes" of the tool. For most software, this is MUCH lower -- and this is perfectly fine as long as the software wasn't developed fully customer-specific. You can sell your software as often as you want, and when it is useful to many, it WILL sell a lot for a "fair" price.
But, considering the price, i really fear that it will soon disappear. Because it won't sell and the authors will abandon it, frustrated about cracked copies and all. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how the linux version 1.4.2 implements the shareware counter (and no, i will NOT share this info, don't even ask...). So, please, for the future of this great tool: adjust it's price in a way that people won't start to feel it could be "fair" to just work around the protection rather than buying it.
And one general word about the "value" of software. I'm a software developer myself and I have to say, there's a big difference between the value for the developer and that for the customer. For the developer, it's all the time put into it, usually a very high value. But the value for the consumer is just measured by the "usefulnes" of the tool. For most software, this is MUCH lower -- and this is perfectly fine as long as the software wasn't developed fully customer-specific. You can sell your software as often as you want, and when it is useful to many, it WILL sell a lot for a "fair" price.
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