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Having your software stolen after they request a 30 day trial.

• tsotha 11y ago
  That's the Far East for ya. We gave a Korean company a 30-day evaluation copy of our software in the early '90s. They decided not to purchase, and a few years later we dropped the product entirely. In 1999 someone from the Korean company called up and asked if we could certify our software to be Y2K compliant.
  • wingerlang 11y ago
    Was there no killswitch after the 30 days? Is that not common in these "company trials"?
    • tsotha 11y ago
      Oddly, no. We're not a software company, and we don't normally sell our software. It's developed for in-house use. One of the managers thought this particular application would be pretty lucrative if we sold it overseas (our customers are all in the US), so he got permission to do so. But we really didn't know what we were doing, i.e. we had a useful application with thousands of internal customers, but on the business side we were making it all up as we went along. In the end the product was dropped because there's a lot of effort that goes into making an application a product you can sell to other companies, and we would have had to grow our organization more than the higher-ups wanted to grow it. Things like fancier interfaces, license enforcement, documentation, packaging, 24 hour support, etc.
  • sunwooz 11y ago
    Yeah, let's generalize an entire region after getting screwed over by one company.