Anarchy in the UK?

[Sam Wilson]

On 12 Dec 2012, at 11:46, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 12/12/2012 11:16, Sam Wilson wrote:
>> Let me just delurk and say that I'm slightly surprised no one has  
>> commented
>> on this rather depressing news.  Perhaps it was just too obvious.
>
> I don't think it's a disaster.  People didn't choose IP over the  
> OSI stack
> because their government hopped on the IP bandwagon.

They chose IP because the US government gave it away for free, often  
bundled with the OS of your choice.  The same was definitely not true  
for the OSI stack.

Sam


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