On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 16:13:56 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:09:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > It came from the Biovia web site. > > > > > > Like I know what a "Biovia" is. > > > > It looks like a company to me. > > > > > I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and > > > therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means > > > it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine > > > to conform to whatever it requires. > > > > Like Gnu, Linux, TeX, Python, …? > > Like scripts that are written for bash but with a #!/bin/sh shebang > because they only tested on one CentOS box. > > Wouldn't surprise me if they parse the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to > get information to create/validate a license key. And oh boy will THAT > be fun, if that's the case, now that eth0 is not an officially valid > interface name, and /sbin/ifconfig is not installed by default, and even > if you DO install it, its output format has changed. > > But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and the /bin/sh symlink will be > the only backflip required.
And this only happens in academia? Cheers, David.
