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nyap@mailhub.garban.com (Noel Yap)Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:44:14 +0800
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
> The denizens of the DDR had to overcome the Stasi, barbed wire, mines,
> walls, tank traps, etc to adopt an open systems architecture. Learning to
> use a few TCP/IP tricks (or building them into applications and using those
> applications) is much easier than breaching the Berlin Wall.
Knowledge about TCP/IP is alot easier to control than knowledge about the Berlin Wall (ie, how many Chinese will even know of the existence of TCP/IP -- in the US, where this is freely available, how many citizens know of it's existence)?