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would you leave your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition or would you lock it and take the key and issue the key to people who want to use it on payment.
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No. But if I was selling a car and let someone test drive it I would hope they would bring it back.
It is also far harder to 'lock' a program than people are implying. Adding this functionality to a shareware program can be far more work than developing the program in the first place. Even then people will crack it. If people like Microsoft can't protect their software what hope has one man and his dog.
Shareware is about trust!