Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:32:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, ulf@Lamb.net, jhs@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, serious@freebsd.org, commercial@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960925192216.8064A-100000@harlie> In-Reply-To: <199609251748.KAA06278@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > What can be thought to become a unique FreeBSD machine ID, anyway? > Network address. Really. Which one? Every machine I use has at least two, not counting loopback. Not to mention the fact that some of these addresses change, no control of my own. The powers that be decide that everyone is going to use their phone extension as the host address, where before everyone was broken down by department. Not saying not to do it, but there's quite a few things you need to keep in mind. If you use the IP address of my ethernet card, congrats, you just bound to a 192.168 address, and anyone that has $20 for a cheap ethernet card, or a spare tun device if your program isn't careful, can pirate the software. If you force me to use real IP addresses, I can't use it at all at work, where I'm behind a firewall, with only 192.168 addresses. For that matter, I've had my ppp address change on me with little notice.
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