Re: Winmodem support, some performance tradeoff estimates

Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@CX601758-a.dt1.sdca.home.com)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:01:02 -0700

On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 02:07:35PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >The real issue though appears to be entirely patents and chip documentation.
>
> I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. However, I believe
> that in the United States, the Uniform Commercial Code, as adopted
> by all 50 states, requires all products sold to include all of the
> necessary include patent permissions to use the product for its
> advertised purpose unless otherwise stated.

Exactly. And in this case the purpose advertised is telephone line
communications under Windows95/98 which means that no support is
required for any other operating system - or for no OS at all.

-bb 

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