[RTTY] ARRL attack on current RTTY users

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> 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 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
>
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