[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

[Bill Ricker]

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
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