I very much doubt that Kemper GmbH will even consider going into this business, even less as a shop host for 3rd party profilers.
To be honest, in my humble opinion it's not a good idea to make others (like Kemper GmbH) responsible for your own business fortune or failure. Feel free to contact all serious profilers and see if you guys can come up with a joint strategy that helps your business. But from my personal perspective (as someone who has happily spent a lot of bucks, quid, euros on commercial profiles) .... make great profiles, make great demos, have a convincing and professional / creative platform for your products. That's a WAY more inviting, positive and motivating strategy than to contemplate over all kinds of pointless restrictions, locks, protections and hassle for your valuable clients.I don't share my commercial profiles and I will NEVER do.
But I can guarantee you that the day someone comes up with any form of technical limitations or copy protection (hardware or software) I will stop buying profiles entirely. Sell your stuff, be happy about all the praise (and cash) you get for your work. But don't convert into a pain in the a** for your clients. You will regret that step.
I very much doubt that Kemper GmbH will even consider going into this business
I understand what you are saying, but I don't think it has be difficult for the users (both ends) to create a platform like this. Besides that, we can all sit at home and argue about what Kemper will do or not, but the only way is open a dialogue and see where it takes us (or not). Maybe there are very workable ideas worth implementing? But the biggest mistake in my opinion is to think that the way it is, is the way it should stay. Software is always worth of evaluating and trying to make it better and that's what i'm trying to do.
For the record, I don't make any money on profiles and I don't intend to do so. I'm just as much a customer as a lot of us are. From a customers point of view, as well as a IT guy, I can see a lot of room for improvement on a lot of levels in the software and the complete buying process in general...