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- From: Ty_Sarna@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Ty Sarna)
- Subject: Re: XPR-Bidirectional
- References: <jam.3167@jammys.ocunix.on.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Distribution: world
- X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26c beta (Nov 16 1992)
- Message-ID: <Ty_Sarna.0k6n@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:36:04 CST
- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
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- In <jam.3167@jammys.ocunix.on.ca>, jam@jammys.ocunix.on.ca (James McOrmond) writes:
- > Bi-modem isn't so complex. The problem is that the author of Bi-modem has
- > copyrighted the protocol, and if someone were to write a compatible Amiga
- > protocol and didn't get his permission, they'd get sued so bad. We would
- > all as well be running an "Illegal" protocol.
-
- You can't copyright a protocol. You can copyright a specific
- implementation, but not the protocol itself. So, unless the authors
- *patented* the protocol, you can implement it if you like (and if they
- did patent it, likely all other bidirectional protocols are illegal to
- implement too).
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- :: Ty Sarna, Postmaster The Flying Circus BBX, San Antonio, TX ::
- :: Ty_Sarna@fcircus.sat.tx.us 512/697-9134 (USRobotics Dual Std) ::
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