It is really a conundrum -- release it in the amateur spirit to
little guys like you and I who don't have any monetary interests, but
continue to risk being pirated yet again by the TNC manufacturers.
... or continue to document it as required for use by amateurs and
*take legal action* against manufacturers who pirate it. Yes, I
know legal action is not cheap or easy but that is the proper course
if one's intellectual property is misappropriated commercially.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 11/29/2013 3:43 PM, Kok Chen wrote:
On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:07 PM, COURYHOUSE@aol.com wrote:
who owns the rights to PACTOR?
I believe it is Special Communications Systems GmbH & Co. KG ("SCS"
in short). KG is the equivalent to our "limited partnership."
In the good old days, a lot of manufacturers pirated Pactor I to
implement into their TNC, without paying a license. WS7I told me
that HAL was one of the very few who paid for a Pactor I license.
So, there is actually good reason for them to be paranoid about
releasing details for the hard work they had put into the subsequent
versions. It is really a conundrum -- release it in the amateur
spirit to little guys like you and I who don't have any monetary
interests, but continue to risk being pirated yet again by the TNC
manufacturers.
In a sense, you can place the blame on the TNC manufacturers for
theft of the original Pactor protocol.
73 Chen, W7AY
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