Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!nerd
From: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Firmware Piracy
Message-ID: <1167@percival.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 02:23:57 GMT
References: <560@teemc.UUCP>
Reply-To: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
Lines: 31
Keywords: piracy telebit trailblazer

In article <560@teemc.UUCP> wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne) writes:

>	I agree about that this is a bad policy and complained directly
>to Telebit about it (one would think that free exchange on EPROMs for a
>year would be reasonable).  They did not seem supportive of this notion.
>My suggestion is to find yourself somebody with 4.0 firmware and a PROM
>burner.  Note, however, that you really should keep your original EPROMs
>around so that you can put them in if you need service.  I find it very,
>very strange that Telebit would take this type of stand considering how
>reasonable they are on everything else.

I hope I miss-read you here, you are suggesting firmware piracy?  I can
only hope you realy meant something else as virtualy everyone who reads
the technical groups on the net has some concept of what the "rewards"
for software (firmware being nothing more than re-packaged software)
piracy.  I have no problems with your doing this in your basement, that
is something for you to work out with your own sense of values, but to
suggest it in a public forum???  Iresponsible is the first word that comes
to mind.
Another point, while there may have been some bug fixes in the 4.00 roms
the packet size is NOT a bug fix, the modem was designed this way from
the start and has been documented to function this way all along.  It is
a new feature which has been added, you are getting more value (if you
use the modem interactively) by upgrading to the new PROMs, it is only
fair that you should pay for it, after all, Telebit's programmers were
most likely not working for free when they came up with the new FEATURE.
-michael
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