What modems work with Ubuntu?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Tue Feb 7 05:40:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 07:32 +0200, Billy Verreynne (JW) wrote:
>         The solution is
>         not hacking and reverse engineering (which is -illegal- in a
>         court of
>         law) winmodems and creating Linux drivers.

Wrong, this is not illegal at all.  Revese engineering for the purposes
of interoperability is legal in the US, Europe, and everywehre else, as
long as you do it by observing the behavior of the Windows driver,
rather than just decompiling and copying it.

It IS a huge PITA though...

Lee





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