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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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