[RTTY] ARRL attack on current RTTY users

[Kok Chen]

On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:07 PM, COURYHOUSE at 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