On: A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it

[crazygringo]

I don't see why.

A time-based trial records the date you started to use it somewhere.

A usage-based trial records the number of times you've done something somewhere.

I can't see why there would be any difference in reliability. The mechanism of recording and checking some value is identical.

[abcd_f → crazygringo]

Time-based trials don't require updating trial state once it's initialized.

[crazygringo → abcd_f]

But if you can update something once, you can update it more than once with the same reliability.

So my point stands. There's no difference in reliability.

The trial state isn't like a cassette tape that degrades in quality each time you record over it!

[abcd_f → crazygringo]

Reliability not it terms of getting it recorded and read back. This is obviously a non-issue. Reliability in terms of enforcing its trial restrictions. The more the program touches its trial state, the easier it is to crack.