On Apr 4, 2010, at 2:07 PM, James Hess wrote:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Michael Sokolov <msokolov@ivan.harhan.org> wrote:
feature blocking seems to negate that. I mean, how could their disabled-until-you-pay blocking of "premium features" be effective if a user can get to the underlying Unix OS, shell, file system, processes,
Probably signed binaries, veriexec with a signature list of allowed executables, proprietary system daemons, hardware drivers, and read-only filesystems. Protections may be in hardware, and you do not have source code. You can in JunOS "start shell user root" as much as you like and get a root shell on various platforms, but some functions are limited.
Most of their license keys are implemented as nag-ware. If you don't mind logs full of "Use of this feature requires a license..." messages, then, it's between you and your lawyers as long as you don't get caught. Owen