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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster Winmodem, any comments?
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 00:49:02 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4ja39u$vr8@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <3140E8AA.1A24@aimnet.com> <31448559.109868290@news1.star.net> <4istt6$lr7@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4j2drs$s3e@vixc.voyager.net>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
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- In article <4j2drs$s3e@vixc.voyager.net>, <strudeau@star.net> wrote:
-
- | You can download it from the BBS when it is available - it isn't available
- | at this time.
-
- As I understand it the problem is legal rather than technical, and
- is not something which can be fixed by USR.
-
- Of course if the country code was embedded in the modem hardware,
- the firmware could check it and we could have one set of code for
- the planet, with governments controling hardware rather than
- firmware.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- -Dave Welch
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