From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ethtool documentation
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:18:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D52377B.F3CAE80@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
Alan Cox wrote:
>Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>> Ha! Just wait until the jack-booted IEEE enforcers kick down *your*
>> door in the middle of the night to nab you for MAC-address trespass.
>> THEN we'll see who' protesting too much.
>
> Just don't use it to go around proprietary software license managers,
> because if so the fbi might just do that...
I wouldn't worry aboyt that. A licence manager depending on
MAC addresses simply isn't doing its job.
Moving a ethernet card from one computer to another is
perfectly legal if you own both of them. So it is the
licence manager that is broken.
I know no law that require IEEE conformant networks either.
If I want to run a net with crazy MAC addresses then I
can do so - and deal with interoperability problems myself.
Piracy is still illegal of course, but nobody can force
me to keep a broken licence manager in working order. :-)
Helge Hafting
next reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 9:18 Helge Hafting [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-07 18:16 ethtool documentation Leif Sawyer
2002-08-06 20:57 Leif Sawyer
2002-08-07 1:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 10:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-06 15:41 Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 19:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2002-08-06 19:44 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 20:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:36 ` Ben Greear
2002-08-06 21:15 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-07 1:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 3:33 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-06 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-06 20:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 19:00 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-08-07 1:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 2:54 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-07 5:32 ` Dax Kelson
2002-08-07 6:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 1:07 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-07 11:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 12:05 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-07 18:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-08-07 20:16 ` erik
2002-08-07 8:02 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-05 11:46 Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-05 15:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:06 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-05 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-05 20:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-06 10:17 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-06 10:07 ` David S. Miller
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