Why OSI and not SNA (was: Re: OSI Failure?)

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From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:05

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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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