Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oddjob!gargoyle!att-ih!att-cb!clyde!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Look and feel
Message-ID: <1524@looking.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 20:39:01 GMT
References: <252@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Lines: 16
Keywords: Hayes modems and "clones"

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.

Hayes possibly regrets this now, but at the time, it was a good idea to
let this take place.  By allowing it, Hayes arranged for their system
to become the standard, which assures their position as a market leader.

Hayes started small, remember.  If you're small you sometimes want to
be copied.  When you're big, you don't.

What HAYES should have done was extract a nominal fee for use of their
design, as the makers of the MNP protocol are doing.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473