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Delivering Software, Electronically?

Posted by Cliff on from the beyond-simple-file-transfers dept.

zpengo asks: "I'm trying to find the best way to implement a large-scale Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) service for my software company. I've been able to find very little information online (after weeks of research) so I must take it to America's best and brightest. Have you ever worked with ESD on a higher than plain-vanilla FTP level, and if so, what did you learn from it? When do you consider the product 'delivered'? Was it worth it? (I'm planning to put together a public domain whitepaper on the subject with the information I gather, to help fill in the gaps I found while researching online)."

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  1. Product delivery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When do you consider the product 'delivered'?

    When it's available on Kazaa?

  2. Ehem... by ekrout · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been able to find very little information online (after weeks of research) so I must take it to America's best and brightest.

    Um, this is Slashdot, dude...

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  3. ESD by cscx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Always make sure you're wearing one of those wrist-strap thingies.

  4. Re:I do! by Superfreaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    erm, that should read 5,000 per week. Shit, I even used that damn preview button. I should walk my fat ass into oncoming traffic.

  5. Re:.....tell...us...more... by scott1853 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be scared, if someone wants to look up your company, he is already well capable of doing it

    Like somebody smart enough to click on his name in the story ;)

  6. But who is going to write your Draconian EULA? by Proudrooster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget that once you have distributed your software over the Internet to an untrustworthy, evil user, s/he is going to give it away for free. S/he is going to start buring illegal copies of the software he downloaded for all his friends and will probably download it right into his P2P upload directory.

    After the Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) is complete, the user has to get through the EULA so he can install it.

    Just who are you going to get to write that EULA?

    Might I humbly suggest,

    http://www.evil-lawyers-who-write-eulas.com

    These guys specialize in incomprehensible leagaleze and by the time they are done, your EULA will stand a proud 250 lines long and allow you to have your way with both the user of your software and his/her computer.

    Good Luck!@

  7. Re:.....tell...us...more... by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like somebody smart enough to click on his name in the story ;)

    Not everyone who reads slashdot is a computer brainiac ya know. Why can't you just say what the damn AOL keyword is, so we can all find it?

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