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From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
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Subject: Re: RFC1974 (STAC)
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> On the other side it would be a good thing to have it for the kernel
> sppp interfaces and i always think that if i have some more spare time
> when i'm old and grey, i will look at it again :-)

Ok, I'm in the same boot here [hmm, I'll probably not be grey but hairless].
Furthermore, since I have experiences with DSL lines to the same provider
that offers this now, I suspect the improvement will not be much in this
particular case.

Re the patend issue: I'd have no problem at all with it (I'm pretty sure it
would not be a valid claim under german law, and probably neither under
international, so I would just ignore the patents on algorithms), but of
course it is an obvious political decision whether to import such code or
not. I've been through this with a customer once, that time vs. unisys and
the GIF problem. That customer had a quite big legal department, but unisys
scared them to death, so we punted. That's life.

Martin

P.S.: see also the Dolby Labs. vs. NetBSD issue on ac3 decoding:
http://www.netbsd.org/Letters/20010803-dolby.html
(unfortunately not showing the answer from NetBSD to Dolby, IIRC the
case is not yet resolved)

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