[geeks] KVM revisited

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
" 
" John Francini wrote:
" > Sounds like massively stupid behavior on the part of the device  
" > makers.  You'd think they'd WANT their devices to work well when  
" > there was a KVM between them and the computer!
" > 
" > Short sighted lawyerly stupidity at its finest.
" 
" No-one ever claimed lawyers were smart.  They just have insanely
" complicated minds that are incapable of thinking about anything in a
" simple, straightforward, logical way.

actually, it is simple, straightforward, and logical, in a rather
paraniod sort of fashion: protect at all costs even when cooperation
would be better, because once you give an inch you set a precedent and
before you know it you'll be lying naked in the gutter!

i'm with lionel - it's the hallucination of intellectual property
that's pushing this.  a kvm reporting the ids of attached devices is
not the same as a printer masquerading as another device.
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