On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:29, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 08-Aug-07, at 7:20 PM, Rony wrote: > >> However its not D-Link am talking of. > > > > If you are not the purchaser, you may not be able to get the SC. > > The big ISP which buys it in bulk has to request for it. > > you request the person who supplied you - he has to give you the SC > and it is no excuse for him to say that the original vendor didnt > give him the source.
In the usa (and probably "as such" in India) he can patent some piece of drivel and pump it into the modem. then tieup with bsnl not to sue BSNL customers buying the modem. So if you bought a bsnl modem, demanded and recieved the code, then re-cross-compiled (or dd the rom binary) and pumped the code into your own design modem / 386box / whatever he can sue you. M$ Novell deal does something similiar with the added M$ innovation of claiming 200 odd undisclosed patents. So the gplv3, which irons out the corner-cases-now-mainstream of distribution thru services/ lease/ third party paten truce/ embeded/ and such other subterfuges. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
