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Re: QuartusII software licencing
- 07-07-2003
July 7, 2003, 1:14 am


I would very much like to rant until they dropped the licencing on the
free tools. But I feel I rant a bit too much already and I don't want
to alienate anyone (or anyone more than I have). I know that sometimes
I push buttons with Peter and Austin. I hope they don't mind too much.
I remember telling the Orcad people what I thought of their new
licensing scheme when they were bought by some larger, high end player.
The new owners felt that Orcad should have high end licensing and I let
them know that I would not be installing the upgrade because of it. I
belive it would have required me to either buy an Ethernet card or to
use a dongle. These days I am not willing to do either to use
software. But a hard drive key is within my comfort zone. I know that
if I replace my hard drive I can set my own serial number and be back on
the air without depending on them. Orcad is one company I will *never*
depend on for anything.
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Rick "rickman" Collins
snipped-for-privacy@XYarius.com
Rick "rickman" Collins
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Re: QuartusII software licencing
In newsgroup: comp.arch.fpga

For Ethernet cards, too; for most it's trivial to flash a new MAC
address permanently. You need hardware-specific tools to do it, but
virtually all modern Ethernet cards have the MAC address in a serial
EEPROM of some sort.
You can still, obviously, not have two Ethernet cards with the same
MAC address on the same network.
-hpa

For Ethernet cards, too; for most it's trivial to flash a new MAC
address permanently. You need hardware-specific tools to do it, but
virtually all modern Ethernet cards have the MAC address in a serial
EEPROM of some sort.
You can still, obviously, not have two Ethernet cards with the same
MAC address on the same network.
-hpa
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