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Member 9610-Nov-04 12:15
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I want Microsoft to alter the .net framework in such a way as to provide at least minimal protection for software developer's intellectual property and or licensing.

They designed just about the entire .net framework from the ground up to provide protection for users and didn't think to spend even 2 seconds worrying about the developers they are trying to convince to use it.

I know some of you are going to say "Well what can they do, it's an intermediate language" I know that, but the point is that *they* wrote it and they have many big brains on staff that could have considered the developers and *their* rights but I don't think they did for even a second.

The way it is now, every .net app is an "open source" app, whether you wanted it to be or not. You have essentially zero protection of your software and their only apparent solution is obfuscation which still makes cracking a license scheme a matter of a day instead of minutes.

At least in the Win32 days a certain level of knowledge was required to crack a skillfully written license protection scheme. You could be confident if you were compromised it was by experts, not by any moron with a two week knowledge of .net and a freely downloaded utility from the internet.

(No, I'm not ranting because we were cracked, I'm ranting in anticipation of having to devise some sort of license scheme for a very large .net application)

Microsoft have the advantage of course of controlling windows itself so if they release .net based apps in future they can probably work some protection for them right into the O.S. if need be. I'll be curious to see what they do.

Anyone with me?
Anyone know where to more effectively post this rant?
Am I dreaming that anything will ever get done?
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General[Flags()] and Property window Pin
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