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- From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Boom! You're Dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.091451.20678@panix.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 09:14:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.142320.4269@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <5787.2a6a973d@hayes.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <5787.2a6a973d@hayes.com> tnixon@hayes.com writes:
- >In article <1992Jul18.142320.4269@qiclab.scn.rain.com>,
- >leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- >
- >> BTW, you seem to imply that the makers of these brain-dead modems are
- >> actually pushing this bug as a *feature*? Is that true?
- >
- >If I implied that, I didn't mean to. To the best of my knowledge,
- >the implementors of TIES don't tout it as a feature; they simply
- >don't mention it at all, which is the purpose of the Hayes
- >educational campaign.
-
- I beg to differ. The purpose of the educational campaign seems to be to scare
- people who don't know better into a) buying Hayes, in the face of better and
- cheaper products, or b) buying Hayes indirectly, by supporting a patent that
- was granted by a Patent Office that should have known better, and upheld by a
- court that should have known better. Tony, if you can explain why the Milnet
- TAC escape sequence isn't prior art, I'll shut up. Otherwise, I wish you'd stop
- miscountenancing your employers' scare tactics.
- --
- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
-
- "Better be careful there. John might decide to start taking legal action
- against people who refuse to buy stuff from him." --Kevin McBride
-