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From: mpd@anomaly.SBS.COM (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SCO TCP/IP copy protection
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.195227.4388@anomaly.SBS.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 91 19:52:27 GMT
References: <9101221000.AA21610@aprm>
Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI  02917
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gd@aprm (Gary Dunn) writes:

>That SCO should build copy protection into their TCP/IP is an
>abomination.  PC users fought for years to rid commercial software of
>this pest, and won.

I believe that SCO's "copy protection" is nothing more than insuring that
multiple serialized copies do not talk to one another. IE: You can't
hook up two machines w/ the same serial number.

In case you didn't know, other vendors, like Novell, do the same thing.
Try hooking up two SFT 2.1+ fileservers and see what type of nasty
messages you get... /8^)

MD
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