From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 3 18:55:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09689 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09682 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA09971; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:25:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706040155.LAA09971@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Minor linux_emul update In-Reply-To: <19970604000805.OZ37222@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jun 4, 97 00:08:05 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:25:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > As Michael Smith wrote: > > > > Why pirate? Somehow, you must generate the number, one way or the > > > other. You know it... I've got no ethernet at all, so what's the > > > returned number? > > > > It's empty, and you require a different license type. > > Why a different license type? I suggest that you talk to Globetrotter, and the lovely Susan Miller, who will pester you with email and phone calls in the hope that you will buy their product. After some study, you will come to the understanding that FLEXlm can be keyed to an almost arbitrary set of system features, but that it does so in such an ugly and inFLEXible fashion that most vendors using it will only accept one set of features per platform. > I think it should be invented at the first use, and stored in some > configuration file then. Even Slowarlis (x86) does it this way. The > (Un-)FlexLM suits seem to can live with this. GSI and FLEX aren't the immediate problem; their product can live with it - it's quite happy to be bound to a combination of hostname and IP address, for example. > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[