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- Path: cafu.fl.net.au!usenet
- From: sunny@fl.net.au (Sunny Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Beware: USRSDL.EXE on USR's FTP site from 1994!
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 10:25:33 GMT
- Organization: First Link Internet Services
- Message-ID: <4hcv8t$gi8@cafu.fl.net.au>
- References: <4gu34i$bqh@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <Dno3nq.Iny@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill) wrote:
-
-
- >Alan Sterger (sterger@primenet.com) writes:
- >> USR has put an old SDL file on their FTP site. The text below is from the
- >> 12-2-94 readme. USR what gives?
- ><snip>
-
- > All 33.6 v.34 firmwares have been removed (temporarily) from the
- >USR FTP and www sites and from their BBS. From the looks of things USR
- >has run into some legal problems with international patents or copyrights of
- >something like that. Basically they're not currently allowed to use 33.6
-
- Probably patent-related. I can't see copyright being a problem - words
- can't be copyrighted anyway (at least in Australia, UK). Hopefully
- problems with 33.6k will go away once the revised v.34 protocol - v.34
- (1996)?? - is approved.
-
- >v.34 outside of the US/Canada. If you live in North America, you can call
-
- This doesn't sound right. Here in Australia, Couriers have been sold
- with 33.6k firmware and have been advertised as such. Our
- telecommunications regulatory body, Austel, hasn't complained yet.
-
- >USR tech support and they will send a copy of the newest firmware
- >(1/23/96) to you free of charge (either via modem, on disk, e-mail or
- >whatever).
-
- At least you have new firmware. Us Aussies are still waiting for an
- Australianised version of the 11/95 code.
-
- Regards
-
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- Sunny Leung in Sydney, Australia. E-mail: sunny@fl.net.au
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