[plug] Windows Briefing

[John Breen]

What they said was, it can be installed on one machine (for use) and on
the backup machine.  That to me says two machines.  What they do is
generate a registration key which is unique to your windows/hardware
setup that means it can't be installed on another machine.  The thing
is, the code is _supposed_ to be able to say "OK, you got a new HDD,
everything else is the same, so I guess it's the same machine..." and
run, but if you take it out of your machine and put it on another
completely different one it doesn't go.

So perhaps it's possible to get around their protection system by
spoofing id codes and gradually allowing the "spoofed" codes to
disappear.  Not that I would advocate any such thing....

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Trevor Phillips [SMTP:phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au]
	Sent:	Friday, 11 June 1999 13:18
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] Windows Briefing

	John Breen wrote:
	> 
	> Actually, the _only_ thing I have seen that I like about O2000
is the
	> way it can only be installed on one machine. (Sort of).  Well,
actually
	> 2...

	Is it two machines, though? Or two times (which was the
impression I
	got). Now THAT would be painful! (Usually do a fresh install of
Win95/98
	every 6 months or so to "cleanse" the system.)

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