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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