Jinx wrote:

> Final 1/3rd after another week or so of customer testing. If you
> don't trust people, include some disabling feature dependent on
> usage or time that's removed on receipt off final 1/3rd

Make sure you tell the customer that this is the case that a software dongle
will be removed on final payment of the goods.  If you don't and he finds
out it will give you a bad name.  You could say that the unit is good for X
amount of uses as a demo unit until full funds are paid.  You will find the
customer will usually be OK with this.  If he is not, then I would be
suspicious of them.  To avoid the units being shipped back to have the
dongle removed, perhaps you could disable it through a customer accessible
serial port or keypad.  I would say that allot of the time - it's just not
worth it.

Brian.

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