Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus

[Igor Izyumin]

On Friday 09 August 2002 04:39 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
> In the case of winmodems that is the reason.  It's not bogus there.  We
> don't have to like it, but it's true.
Not only that, but they also don't want people fiddling with their drivers.  
Since software winmodems are basically soundcards that hook to the phone 
line, you could make them do a lot of possibly illegal things with the phone 
line.  If the company released an open-source driver for them, they could 
potentially get their FCC certification revoked.  The hardware vendor doesn't 
want extra liabilities.
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-- Igor