From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 13:10:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03997 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03783; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06581; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:08:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609252008.NAA06581@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Licensing Software To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:08:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9609251936.AA26052@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Sep 25, 96 03:36:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > o If your topology prefix is subject to change, don't include > > it. It's just "one more damn thing" to push you over the > > allowed 32 bit limit anyway. > > What ``allowed 32 bit limit''? This one: % man hostid GETHOSTID(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual GETHOSTID(3) NAME gethostid, sethostid - get/set unique identifier of current host SYNOPSIS #include long gethostid(void) > > o If "someone over you" changes the topology by positional > > fiat ("I am the VP and that's the way it will be"), then > > BZZZT! You clearly don't understand the world works. It's more like: > > ``We decided that MCI is charging us too much so now we are customers > of SprintLink. Deal with it.'' "It will take a week to resolve the licensing issues your decision has fomented. Thank you for your patience during this transition period. By the way, since Garrett says we will all be using IPv6 soon enough that we should consider it in our discusion, the company should obtain IPv6 address assignements so that this will never happen again as a result of changing our NSP/ISP". > > *they* can eat the cost of what they want done. It is a > > matter of physics. You can not change the way things > > operate simply because you dislike it. There are unavoidable > > That's right. No amount of babbling on your part will causes > addresses to stop being Addresses and start being Names. If you want > to treat them as Names, that's fine, but don't expect any Internet > providers to route your traffic. So what is "Garrett's soloution to the licensing issue to put FreeBSD on a par with other OS's who, by ignoring Garrett, have seeminly arrived at satisfactory soloutions to the problem Garrett claims is insoluable"? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.