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From: awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
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Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
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Date: 9 Dec 88 12:10:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu's message of 7 Dec 88 19:40:16 GMT

>Errr... How could you copy protect Unix software in the first place?

Log in to a Vax (not uVax!) or Sun sometime, and type "hostid".  You can
hardwire these numbers into commercial software to restrict their use
to particular CPUs.

btw, I strongly disapprove of copy protection, I also strongly disapprove
of software hoarding.  Free software for all!  (flames to /dev/null)

Aled Morris
systems programmer

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