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bad that Nvidia does not support you financially

Thanks Radiance.

Despite your illness and the management time loss, Octane development is a hell of lot further along than I thought it would be.

Radiance, thanks for taking the time to disclose all of this. Stay strong and keep going! Can't wait for the new features!

Boy am I glad I bought a 470!

radiance wrote:

Then, a few weeks after that, we we will release the final 2.3 with MLT and the new anti-piracy (which is actually a very nice feature which everyone will love) stuff.

Overall sounds like a great plan

But i hope you don't spend too much time on anti piracy stuff, no matter what you do - they'll manage to crack it(its happen with every other software in the industry).

I may be wrong but the "anti-piracy" thingie will probably be some brand new feature that any cracked pre-2.3b Octane will miss desperately...?

and BTW the better anti-piracy strategy imho is exactly that: frequent, nice and free updates to licensed customers, so that warez users always have to start from scratch (and finally realize all that time spent on searching and downloading and cracking is not worth a 100€ save...)

Looking forward to the new toys here very much!

As far as the copy protection stuff goes, here's my advice as a software developer (for 30 years now) which of course you are free to ignore:

Copy protection serves only one purpose: To keep honest customers honest.

Some sort of copy protection can be worthwhile so that a customer cannot trivially install onto lots of machines while "intending" to get around to acquiring the appropriate licenses but somehow never getting around to it.

But it's totally not worth worrying about the people who actively crack/bootleg your stuff. These people WILL find a way to get around whatever you come up with. You may not agree with this now, but coming to terms with the fact that people are just going to crack and steal your stuff is one of THE best things you can do to improve your own quality of life

If you actively try to eliminate illegal copying, you'll spend all your time on it and are unlikely to succeed, and stand a good chance of pissing off all your legitimate customers if you try to implement something "unhackable", while at the same time stressing your self to death over it. Been there, done that.

I wish you guys all the best in your software and business endeavors.

Z.

Zoot wrote:Looking forward to the new toys here very much!

As far as the copy protection stuff goes, here's my advice as a software developer (for 30 years now) which of course you are free to ignore:

Copy protection serves only one purpose: To keep honest customers honest.

Some sort of copy protection can be worthwhile so that a customer cannot trivially install onto lots of machines while "intending" to get around to acquiring the appropriate licenses but somehow never getting around to it.

But it's totally not worth worrying about the people who actively crack/bootleg your stuff. These people WILL find a way to get around whatever you come up with. You may not agree with this now, but coming to terms with the fact that people are just going to crack and steal your stuff is one of THE best things you can do to improve your own quality of life

If you actively try to eliminate illegal copying, you'll spend all your time on it and are unlikely to succeed, and stand a good chance of pissing off all your legitimate customers if you try to implement something "unhackable", while at the same time stressing your self to death over it. Been there, done that.

I wish you guys all the best in your software and business endeavors.

Z.

+1

hardware dongles is a good example of it...

SurfingAlien wrote: and BTW the better anti-piracy strategy imho is exactly that: frequent, nice and free updates to licensed customers, so that warez users always have to start from scratch (and finally realize all that time spent on searching and downloading and cracking is not worth a 100€ save...)

+1. There's no reason to crack a good software frequently updated and at an affordable price.
Not even for hobbiest.

radiance wrote:

sam75 wrote:will the fireflies be gone in the next RC ?

the intermediate cuda 3.1 and area lights version won't,
the final beta2.3 after that will.

Radiance

Will it be long Radiance?

This is a big love with Octane anyway. I'm waiting waiting waiting.

bad that Nvidia does not support you financially

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