Re: The new licensing model

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:11:34AM -0500, Dan Strychalski wrote:
> "pap" <pap@tiac.net> wrote --
> 
> >   But I do feel that the power you speak of is based not on some excess
> >   larceny in the heart of management but in the licenses they are
> >   granted to use it by not having to disclose one jot of code, along
> >   with the rest of the world. I do not see them being unique in this
> >   regard other than having overachieved at it.
> 
> When a certain widely-used resource that is built into the hardware
> is suddenly disabled in every big-name program on the market, and
> then is magically re-enabled when the monopoly is complete, there is
> excess larceny somewhere.

	What is this widely-used resource?

Have fun (if at all possible),
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