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Article #26014Re: Look and feel
From: J. Chris Cooley
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 19:57
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 19:57
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In article <252@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>, kevin@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Kevin Tubbs) writes: > With all this talk about the look and feel of software, I was wondering > why Hayes never sued (as far as I know) over the many openly "Hayes- > compatible" modems on the market. The "Hayes" command set was developed by Bizcomp, Corp., and then bought by Hayes. Anyway, Hayes is the legal owner of it, now. Companies who wish to use the Hayes command set must sign a pricey license with Hayes. One of the suits that went to court was the manufacturer U.S. Robotics, who felt that the license fee (and even the idea of it) was too much. They lost and now are paying Hayes like everyone else. > How does the command set of a modem differ from the "command set" > of any other program, such as windowing software? It doesn't. And Hayes owns the AT command set. --chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!rutgers!im4u!ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Look and feel Message-ID: <1495@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 88 19:57:28 GMT References: <252@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 19 Keywords: Hayes modems and "clones" Summary: They do...