From: wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel)
To: helgehaf@idb.hist.no
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A return to PCI ordering problems...
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:52:44 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011121125244.4E9D836DE3@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFB7381.A0BB2474@idb.hist.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011120190316.H19738@vnl.com> <2048.1006291657@redhat.com> <20011120214705.D22590@vnl.com>
Helge Hafting wrote:
>Dale Amon wrote:
>> There are a couple reasons. One that is specific to this
>> particular case is that the VeryExpensiveProprietaryPackage
>> someone bought checks the eth0 MAC address to be sure you
>> haven't moved it. It would not really be smart to license
>> it against a removable, swappable PCI card.
>>
>Such a licencing scheme isn't very smart on a os where
>the kernel source is available anyway.
It's not very smart even on a proprietary operating system such
as Solaris. There have been tools available to report a different
hostid on Solaris for ages.
/Christer
--
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-21 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-20 19:03 Dale Amon
2001-11-20 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 19:51 ` Tim Hockin
2001-11-20 20:13 ` Faux Pas III
2001-11-20 21:20 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 21:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 21:49 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-20 22:02 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-20 22:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 21:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-20 21:47 ` Dale Amon
2001-11-21 9:27 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 12:52 ` Christer Weinigel [this message]
2001-11-21 8:57 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-21 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-21 11:29 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-21 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-21 12:10 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-11-21 13:51 ` James A Sutherland
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