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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Look and feel
Message-ID: <1076@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 88 14:35:23 GMT
References: <252@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Lines: 12
Keywords: Hayes modems and "clones"
Summary: There have been several law suits


Hayes has indeed sucessfully prosecuted several companies fro
copying the smartmodem's AT command set.  That is why, I suppose,
all the Hayes clone modems have those annouying slight differences
in their command sets.

Hayes can protect its command set since it is not a programming
language.  Adobe learned about that when they called Post Script a
"language" in their own literature.  Copyright can not be obtained
for a language.  One just can't name one's knock-off "Post Script".

--Bill