Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:18:51 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: ethtool documentation |
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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. :-)
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