From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 06:05:31 +0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Open Systems, Closed Systems, & Killer Apps
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you can call X.25 a lot of things, but proprietary is not one of them. 
X.25 did not fail because it wasn't open; X.25 failed because it was crap


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