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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        ulf@Lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann)
Cc:        jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, serious@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Licensing Software
Message-ID:  <199609250320.UAA01584@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609250231.TAA01832@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Sep 24, 96 07:31:47 pm"

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... [stuff about software node locking, etc...] ...

> 
> Kind of a neat but dirty way is to take the CRC of the system BIOS and the VGA
> BIOS. Problem with it is only if the card get's exchanged, etc.

And now a days given that all modern motherboards have flash BIOSes a
user is _very_ likely to change it causing this method to fail.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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