On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > We are lucky that Alcatel is providing good support for their hardware.
> > Like Alan pointed out, what if BT had chosen a different modem provider who
> > wasn't as helpful?
>
> Then I imagine BT would be in court in a few months. Its worked out nicely
> thanks to Alcatel and I hope once released the fact they support Linux and
> have open abilities for any OS support wins them customers against the
> very closed folk they compete with.
Is there anything (other than a current lack of products) which would
stop an end user from using competing products instead of BT's supplied
one? ie other USB ADSL modems with support for linux, BeOS, ADFS,
whatever; or IP ADSL modems.
Mike
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