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- From: jagrizza@uncc.edu (James A Grizzard)
- Subject: Re: XPR-Bidirectional
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:36:58 GMT
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- In article 3167@jammys.ocunix.on.ca, jam@jammys.ocunix.on.ca (James McOrmond) writes:
- >>Why is BiModem so complex? You send a packet while recieving a packet,
- >>If you have to Ack/Nack, you just have an Ack/Nack packet. Communications
- >
- >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.
-
- why??? if someone writes some code, and doesn't use the original bi-modem author's
- code, how can that be violation of copyright?
-