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Wanted: ISO OSI specs via ftp

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From: Robert Lewis Glendenning
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 18:44
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I started the recent round of ISO bashing, have learned more, and want to
add a little perspective.

Open Systems Foundation doesn't provide any of its documentation on-line
either, even tho it is apparently free !

There is a paper-based mentality in the world which doesn't comprehend
the new technologies. As I may have said previously, when you add together
the effects of this kind of point of view, ISO's need to get revenue from
publications, and a bureaucratic lethargy, it will be 2050 before the
publications are available on-line.

ISO is not an exception, but rather the rule. We have to wait for the
current paper-based mentality to die out, just as this is the solution
for all other bottlenecks in cultural evolution.

If anybody has a better technology for changing fundamental mental sets,
get in touch. We can make a bundle marketing this technology.

Lew

-- 
Lew Glendenning		rlglende@netcom.com
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."	Nils Bohr (or somebody like that).
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From: rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning)
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Subject: Wanted: ISO OSI specs via ftp
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Date: 6 Oct 92 18:44:29 GMT
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