Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #4149

Philipp Thomas (kthomas@gwdg.de)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:04:48 GMT


On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:33:57 -0600, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
wrote:

>Rather than wait for
>industry to figure out the right answer, a committee of people ``decide''
>on the right answer. These standards are almost universally bad things.

Do I smell OSI here ? At least for me it looks like the explanation
for why the OSI model caught on (with the ongoing fun when you have to
tell people why TCP/IP doesn't quite fit that model :) but not the
implementations.

Philipp Thomas

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