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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Keywords: zmodem file transfer cheapskates
Message-ID: <5976@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 15:01:39 GMT
References: <1163@igloo.Scum.COM> <4700@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <1179@igloo.Scum.COM>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <1179@igloo.Scum.COM> bhv@igloo.UUCP (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
     ...the ZMODEM protocol itself _is_ public domain, and its
     development was funded by a major modem maufacturer (I don't
     recall which one offhand).  One of the reasons that I specifically
     dislike DSZ's commercialism is that there is a long past history
     of public domain communications protocols - and I would like to
     see these protocols remain in the public domain, and _not_ be
     commercialized.

The zmodem protocol was diesigned by the author of DSZ.  He has already
released free source code for zmodem, written in C, for UNIX and
VAX/VMS.  I don't think we should begrudge him trying to make a little
money from a shareware release of DSZ.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
                    ARPA:  dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu