Replying to a message of Jerry Schwartz to Jay Hanig:
 JS> On Aug 03 18:23 95, Jay Hanig of 1:379/41.5 wrote to Jon
 JS> Fletcher:
 JH>> VFC is not a proprietary protocol.  Several manufacturers used
 JH>> it while  they were waiting for v.34 to be ratified.
 JS> It sure was proprietary; in order to use it, you had to buy a
 JS> chipset from Rockwell or license it from them.  That is not the
 JS> case with V.34, which is essentially public property.
Most of V.34 is public domain.  But MANY of the optional protocols within ARE 
proprietary, such as V.42bis, MNP5 and other options.
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