ljm@TWG.COM (01/29/91)
> >>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. > >...SUN had some scheme like this for PC-NFS. It would seem >to me that the only legitimate gripe is how it screws >up the network.... and > >...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^)... > Indeed. For networks of any size, broadcast based protection schemes are a disaster. Either, the network is segregated and the copy protection packets don't reach the other nodes or the network is flat and every copy protection packets reaches every other node perhaps melting down the entire network. In neither case does the vendor's efforts produce the result originally intended. enjoy, leo j mclaughlin ljm@twg.com