[KoRn]

You are not going to say the OSI model for Ethernet was invented by open source nuts, are you?

No, not at all. The OSI model was agreed upon standards by the industry at large. This wouldn't occur if every vendor went their own way, like you suggest they should. Imagine if M$, Linux, Mac, Unix, and Ethernet card manufacturers went their own way.

PS: The OSI model has ALLOT more to do with networking than Ethernet. Ethernet is only a layer 2 standard, among other layer 2 standards, out of the 7 layer communications model.

[KwasiOwusu]

"The OSI model was agreed upon standards by the industry at large. This wouldn't occur if every vendor went their own way, like you suggest they should. Imagine if M$, Linux, Mac, Unix, and Ethernet card manufacturers went their own way."


I suggested nothing of the sort.
IT firms and consumer electronics firms have have been forming committees and developing standards right from when the electronics industry started.
This was not open source at all.
Electronics firms still developed their own technologies in a very proprietary manner.
They only worked together he necessary to allow their products to work together.
Which is the way it should be.