From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 12 18:26:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA20132 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 18:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA20126 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 18:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA21945; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:22:27 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606130152.LAA21945@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: T-shirts for donations ;)...Maybe????? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:22:27 +0930 (CST) Cc: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606122037.NAA06718@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 12, 96 01:37:34 pm 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 Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > Actually, thinking more on this, I'd like to see a SunSoft-like > key-based commercial software distribution CDROM. Install the > demo version, call up with a credit card to get a key to turn > it intothe real thing. I've played with a bunch of these for > SPARC SunOS and Solaris. I (and probably anyone else not in the continental US) would _NOT_ like this. Can you guess why? Now a PGP-based mailback system that kept records so that if your system and the key got hosed you could re-request the key _without_being_billed_ would have some merit. Maybe. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[