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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: Why OSI and not SNA (was: Re: OSI Failure?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.132106.3900@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 13:21:06 GMT
- References: <uig3PB1w164w@Control.Com> <1992Aug25.175150.22420@novell.com> <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Aug26.110545.8560@ugle.unit.no>
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- Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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- In article <1992Aug26.110545.8560@ugle.unit.no> harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no writes:
- >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.
-
- Sure. I'd go for OSI too. But I was responding to a poster from Novell.
- As it happens, I think SNA beats all other proprietary technologies hands
- down. As far as formal specification goes it is unmatched even by OSI.
-
- >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
-
- I think you're confusing the protocols with the products. I don't
- _believe_ there's anything to stop anyone patenting a particular kind
- of OSI router that works in a particular way.
-