🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct6.162735.7140@ampex.com> leepeng@ampex.com (Peng Lee) writes:
>
>  The best software license is for someone (Bill Gate) to convince 
>  the CPU maker (intel) to have one register contains a unique ID for 
>  each CPU.  (32 bits PROM programmed at the end of CPU testing cycle.) 

Of course, then AMD will make a clone of the CPU with a program-writable
ID register, then Intel will sue AMD, Microsoft will refuse to sell software
for AMD clones, the Justice Department will sue Intel and Microsoft
collectively for antitrust violations, and everyone will blame everyone
else for the mess.

Besides, hackers will just dummy out the "fetch-ID" instruction in their copy of
the program and give it to their friends (after infecting it with a virus ;-).

Simple solutions are simple to circumvent.