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
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