On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 01:05 AM, Krevnik wrote:
On Nov 11, 2003, at 3:53 PM, Jim Schulze wrote:
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 09:29 PM, Krevnik wrote:It doesn't mean that Linux will suddenly stop working. VPC is designed so that you can't just set a magic flag that prevents an OS from working.
ROFLMAO.
Uh, do you think that if you had the source code you might be able to come up with a way to do exactly that?
And how long would that last? What would you check for in the OS you are loading to see if it is Linux, BSD, or Windows? Maybe we could check to see if it loads like Windows... oh wait, Unix systems sometimes do that on x86 hardware for compatibility reasons.
Crippling VPC to not run Linux also runs a large risk of crippling VPC to not run Windows, as it emulates the hardware not the software. Linux is very much designed to be able to boot in the same manner Windows does... and even if it checked for certain files, you could always trick it.
The core design of VPC prevents MS/Connectix from disabling other OSes without doing some damage to Windows running in the VPC environment.
This would be so simple that it almost takes longer to describe it than to implement it.
How about getting the boot code to check for a Microsoft Copyright notice in some piece of the system and not boot if it is not there?
How about only booting if the file system is Microsoft's FAT or FAT32 or NTFS.
How long until the Linux system includes a Microsoft Copyright notice in their code?
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