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- From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Why OSI and not SNA (was: Re: OSI Failure?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.110545.8560@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:05:45 GMT
- References: <uig3PB1w164w@Control.Com> <1992Aug25.175150.22420@novell.com> <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk>, ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- |> The only question in my mind is "Why OSI and not SNA".
-
- That's the easiest one to answer in this whole thread.
- Patents.
- Licensing fees.
- Subject to change without notice.
- FUD.
- IBM.
-
- Yesterday I read that IBM has 8 patents on APPC Network Node (something like
- an SNA "router"), and will demand licensing of all vendors of such products
- even when they don't have and don't want any single line of IBM code.
-
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- Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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