From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 13 16:22:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28432 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28423 Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:22:17 -0800 (PST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601122147.OAA20903@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:47:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael C. Newell" at Jan 12, 96 02:49:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I've done a tad more research (via Lycos) and found that it is indeed > possible that the Compression Control Protocol (CCP) of PPP is patented > by Motorola. I've not seen any followup, but I've not spent months > looking either... Around the same links, you'll find published source for the Cellular Phone voice compression technique (this may be less suitable to non voice data, but Amancio will probably roll it into VAT now that it has been mentioned publically 8-)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.