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- From: dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: PC/TCP 2.1 copy protection
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.103309.13636@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 10:33:09 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.214208.41914@clinicom.com> <gweil.85.716068151@ibeam.intel.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
- Lines: 33
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- In article <gweil.85.716068151@ibeam.intel.com> gweil@ibeam.intel.com (Garry A. Weil) writes:
- >>Subject: PC/TCP 2.1 copy protection
- >>Message-ID: <1992Sep8.214208.41914@clinicom.com>
- >>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:42:08 GMT
- >>Distribution: usa
- >>Organization: CliniCom Incorporated, Boulder, CO
- >>Lines: 43
- >
- >
- >>I just got a call from someone at FTP Software informing me that our upgrade to
- >>2.1 should ship in the next week or two. "Great!" says I -- I've been waiting
- >>for some of the new features for a long time. But this is no mere notification,
- >>I'm told, and sends out its signature onto my Ethernet, so all of my PCs'
- >>kernels can tell if they have been installed on more than one workstation.
- >
- >This is just FTP playing catch-up with Sun. PC-NFS has had similar copy
- >protection since I started using it a year ago.
-
- Don't you mean,
- "This is just FTP being just as stupid as Sun. PC-NFS has been anal retentive
- for the past year."
-
- And to think the guys at FTP had the gaul to ask me why we were NOT going
- to upgrade our current kernel.
-
- well guys, YOU HAVE A REASON NOW.
-
- The last thing I want to do is monitor over 800 copies of a copy protected
- kernel . . .
-
- --
- I hate the 3B2
- The 3B2 can bite me.
-