And very changeable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Linux] mediacheck & RHL 7.3
>
>
> Greg writes:
>
> > But no HPSUSAN to worry about; there's a paradigm shift.
>
> There was no HPSUSAN number in the Classic HP3000s either.
> The HPSUSAN number
> was put into the RISC-based MPE machines at the urging of the
> vendors in the
> late 1970's/early 1980's in order to minimize piracy.
> Although it may seem
> like a pain to the user, it's easy to argue that it's done
> its job well and
> made the market much more stable for those vendors that chose
> to support the
> HP3000.
>
> Because all of the software that we're now developing will be
> from this point
> on internet based, and because unique ID numbers do prevent
> piracy, we're
> building all of our software to register itself using the MAC
> number of the
> NIC card in the PC, which is a very similar number to the HPSUSAN.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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