BG> I was actually on my 4th USR before I knew about that.  So?

So you weren't well aware of it for years.  Just like lots of other
people.  Until it bites them.

PE> Anyway, a deficiency IS a quirk which can cause problems.

BG> For the brain-dead perhaps.  It never bit me before I knew about it.

Right, so USR doesn't have bugs, it just has brain-dead users.
I'm so brain-dead that my Netcomm locked up by itself.  So silly
of me, I'm well aware of the quirk, all I have to do is turn my
modem off and on and it goes away.  I wonder if the modem industry
is run by people just like you?  Netcomm and USR certainly appear
to be.

BG> What are you on about here?  The USR's code is indeed copyrighted, so you 
BG> can't just start mass-producing it without stealing it.  Not that I 
BG> personally give a stuff anyway.

PE> Mass-produce the hardware, not the software.  That was well
PE> explained, several times, try to keep up. 

BG> Oh crap, the hardware is easily (and probably quite legally) copyable, as 

Pity no-one's done it then, which is what Rod was saying the 
Taiwanese should do.

BG> it simply uses generic components.  We were actually discussing copying the 
BG> ROM code which controls the hardware, and that is indeed copyrighted 
BG> material.

And which Rod WASN'T planning on mass-producing at all.  If you'd
bothered to engage your brain whilst reading.  BFN.  Paul.
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