On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:16:55AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:58:17PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> >>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:10:07PM -0600, Randy Clarksean wrote:
> >>> Can I send out a binary?  No ... it is a commercial code that requires a
> >>> license key (based NIC card IP) in order for it to run.  So ... there i=
> >s no
> >>> way to run it on other hardware, unless that hardware already has a lic=
> >ense
> >>> key.  Thanks for the offers though.
> >>=20
> >>ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> >>=20
> >>heh.
> >>--=20
> >>Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
> >>http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203
> >
> >Please report yourself to the nearest DMCA reeducation center. You need
> >your attitude wrt intellectual property readjusted. 
> >
> >florin 
> >
> >PS: Damn I feel dirty now.
> 
> Me too; not w.r.t. intellectual property, but because a non-manufacturer 
> changing the MAC address of a card violates a standard! ;) 

Tying a license key on the "immutable" MAC address certainly violates
some decency law somewhere 8^)

It takes at least a couple of weeks to break a real hardware key...

florin

-- 

"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is."

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