Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:25:10 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> To: hm@kts.org Cc: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk>, Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC1974 (STAC) Message-ID: <200110290825.f9T8PA700819@night-porter.duskware.de> In-Reply-To: <20011026181940.1EA51F9C4@bert.kts.org>
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> On the other side it would be a good thing to have it for the kernel > sppp interfaces and i always think that if i have some more spare time > when i'm old and grey, i will look at it again :-) Ok, I'm in the same boot here [hmm, I'll probably not be grey but hairless]. Furthermore, since I have experiences with DSL lines to the same provider that offers this now, I suspect the improvement will not be much in this particular case. Re the patend issue: I'd have no problem at all with it (I'm pretty sure it would not be a valid claim under german law, and probably neither under international, so I would just ignore the patents on algorithms), but of course it is an obvious political decision whether to import such code or not. I've been through this with a customer once, that time vs. unisys and the GIF problem. That customer had a quite big legal department, but unisys scared them to death, so we punted. That's life. Martin P.S.: see also the Dolby Labs. vs. NetBSD issue on ac3 decoding: http://www.netbsd.org/Letters/20010803-dolby.html (unfortunately not showing the answer from NetBSD to Dolby, IIRC the case is not yet resolved) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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