Re: Symbols and the Lucent Winmodem driver

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:53:38 -0700

kernel@kvack.org wrote:
>
> On 29 Jun 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Isn't the problem that V.42[bis], V.34[bis] and V.90 are patented?
>
> If you have a WinModem, then you implicitly have a license to use that
> patent on that modem. Otoh, if you want to use it on, say, a spare ISDN
> channel, you do not.
>

Good point.

-hpa

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