About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Sat Dec 23 19:04:17 PST 2000
At 10:19 AM 12/22/00 -0500, Peter Wayner wrote:
>I don't see how they will be able to distinguish between the truth
>and a lie when a guy calls up and say, "uh, my hard disk crashed. I
>need to install it on a new machine." They either authorize it or
>they don't. In fact, they'll probably have to automate the process
>because it's so expensive to have an actual human on the other end.
Just a historical anecdote. Back in the old days, software
could be linked to the unique ID on Sun motherboards. To move
software to a new machine, you called and maybe faxed something
signed (with a pen) to the effect that you weren't ripping them off.
This was before the software-based floating licenses became
popular.
dh
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