On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:54:43 PDT, Seth Arnold <sarnoldat_private> said: > [1] they put an awful lot of effort into copyprotection .. how about > 'forced upgrade protection', that disables internet connections when > computers are unpatched for 14 days after release of a patch? Or how > about machines that automatically apply patches? Or email administrators > every time a patch is released? That's called 'The Evil of UCITA', and will certainly result in lawsuits filed at 9:01AM the first business day after a software vendor mistakenly disables a software package remotely and hoses somebody's business. Hint - I have a machine at home that's not ON the net very often (or at least not visibly). What should happen the first time it reconnects and finds that there's a 25M patchfile that's 17 days old? Should it then try to download it at the 5KB/sec my modem line achieves? What happens if I lose my connection during this multi-hour download, and what happens to whatever I'm *TRYING* to do while this download is in progress? Let's not go there, OK? ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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