Re: bug causes tcp/ip stack corruption

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Dec 1998 00:23:36 GMT


Followup to: <19981218211356.B10733@entity>
By author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johnny_Teve=DFen?= <j.tevessen@gmx.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Quoting Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl):
>
> > You don't know a lot of modems then .. the <pause>+++<pause> is copyrighted
> > by Hayes, so a lot of cheap modems don't implement the pause.
>
> Copyrighted?! A pause? And this makes a lot of modems incompatible?
> Brave new world. :-(
>

Worse. Patented.

-hpa

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