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[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
to say nothing of the Internauts!
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:44 AM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> No, OSI committed suicide in 1979, when they decided to do the work
>> jointly with the ITU. It was just a matter of time after that. The rest
>> was just noise.
>
>
> Point taken. But the long death rattle sure fooled a lot of folks and
> annoyed quite a few d'ARPAnauts for most of a decade !
>
> --
> Bill
> @n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com