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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Using the serial # in ROM as a copy protection mechanism...?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 03:41:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <404@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes:
-
- >Well, you'll trust your suppliers or not :-) Your scheme - as effected by
- >the licensing for the (C)SLIP package - works fine for me - except for one
- >little detail. I obtained a license to use Compressed SLIP with my Neuron
- >1414 modem.
-
- Actually, you obtained a license from Neuron to use Neuron's software
- product "Neuron Dendrite." This software package is seperate and
- distinct from my software package, though it was derived from software
- licensed to Neuron by me. Neuron's software was (supposed) to be
- marketed and supported by Neuron. As we all know by now, this really
- didn't happen, nor did they pay their licensing fees to me either
- before they did their disappearing act. Hey, its only $$$ :-(
-
- >Now this weekend I upgraded to 3.0, thereby effectively
- >disabling Compressed SLIP, because it depends on being able to patch the
- >kernel to permit IP packets < 536 bytes. Fortunately - I thought - there
- >was an updated version of your CSLIP package on the Education Software
- >Sampler CD-RON. Alas, installing this package overwrites the license file
- >... Because I'm very paranoid about keeping originals, I could go back
- >and re-install the old version - and ended up doing the kernel hack myself
-
- Differences in packaging caused the keyfile to get zapped. I'm very
- careful in my released to not install any files over file that the
- user may have customized, which is why all that stuff is in the
- SAMPLES directory.
-
- Also, note that the version of my SLIP software on the Educational
- Software Sampled CD-ROM is one version short of the one that supports
- the 3.0 release for CSLIP. If you don't do CSLIP, it will work just
- fine. If you do CSLIP and upgrade to 3.0, you really want
- SLIP_920904.tar from one of the archive sites.
-
- louie
-
-