About Piracy but not about that guy...

[Alex Tweedly]

SimPLsol at aol.com wrote:

>Alex,
>What if the computer ID was contained on a removable chip (like the GSM chips 
>in a cell phone)? Then, if the computer broke, or you upgraded to a new 
>computer, you would just move the chip.
>  
>
That would be much better.

>I know, what if the chip failed? Since it would be just a single, simple 
>chip, failure would be less likely. Vendors would probably offer overnight chip 
>replacement.
>  
>
I wouldn't worry about chip failure;  upgrading to a new laptop or 
desktop is fairly common - for me it happens every year or every other 
year (my wife plays a lot of computer games, so she needs to keep fairly 
up-to-date on hardware, and I get her cast-offs). Chip failure (esp. of 
a simple one like this) would be much less common, so waiting for an 
overnight shipment would be rare enough to not worry about it.

There are still other issues - I use 2 laptops and 3 desktop machines, 
do I need 1 or 5 licenses ? multiple chips on one machine ? etc. - but a 
SIM-chip like solution would be far better than hardwiring to something 
fixed within the hardware (which I think is what the Newton did).


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