Re: disabling Intel PSN

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:33:24 +0000

pjb1008@cam.ac.uk said:
> I think it's a bad idea to allow it at all. If it's enabled, vendors
> will start using it for generating software licence keys; its bad
> enough that Mac addresses are used for this purpose (consider what
> happens when your server's hardware fails and needs to be replaced).

That's the best reason I've heard so far, and it still doesn't hold much
water. They have to have a fall-back; nobody's going to voluntarily limit
themselves to only running on PIII, and in that case you just disable the S/N
while you're installing the license.

--
dwmw2






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