Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:01:02 -0700 | | From | Bill Broadhurst <> | | Subject | Re: Winmodem support, some performance tradeoff estimates |
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On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 02:07:35PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >The real issue though appears to be entirely patents and chip documentation. > > I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. However, I believe > that in the United States, the Uniform Commercial Code, as adopted > by all 50 states, requires all products sold to include all of the > necessary include patent permissions to use the product for its > advertised purpose unless otherwise stated.
Exactly. And in this case the purpose advertised is telephone line communications under Windows95/98 which means that no support is required for any other operating system - or for no OS at all.
-bb
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