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Re: Register codes are nice... but what about piracy?
>>>>> "Ian" == Ian C Blenke <blenke@suntan.eng.usf.edu> writes:
Ian> Perhaps something akin to TIA's .tiarc authentication
Ian> scheme. Seems to be a MD5 hash of pertainant information. The
Ian> difficult part is uniquely identifying a machine - and I'm
Ian> against using a machine's primary interface IP number (my
Ian> poor Linux box is forever changing IPs).
IP addresses and ethernet addresses are used by some companies, but I
personally find such licensing schemes much too restrictive. Besides,
it's not the Linux users that we're worried about anyway (at least
right now).
Ian> Anyway, take a look at TIA's scheme: http://marketplace.com/
Ian> Personnally, I prefer TERM as TIA's SLIP seems a tad chunky.
Thanks for the pointer. We'll take a look.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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