[EUG-LUG:5114] Re: How to 'lie' about an expire time/date

[Bob Miller]

Seth Cohn wrote:

> Seems that Adobe has given up on releasing Framemaker, and the beta
> expires on Dec 31.
> 
> Reading the story on Linux Today, I noticed a really cool little
> tool:  to lie to an application and force the time/date.  No more
> expiring demo software.

This kind of stuff is why commercial software companies aren't in a
big hurry to support Linux.  Too easy to hack.

I predict that Adobe will place itself under the Linux steamroller
rather than ride along.

(BTW, I did the same hack, writing a new gettimeofday, for Fraunhoefer
Institute's MP3 encoder a few months ago.  Worked good.)

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