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by bbulkow 1680 days ago
I fought in the networking wars. Implemented a lot of protocols and a lot of protocol gateways. Calling the reason for TCP winning 'arbitrary' or even softening that to 'not based entirely on technical merit' does not do justice to the entire land war in Asia that happened between about '85 and '95. If anyone cares about that period, they can do some research, otherwise, I would propose not uttering unfounded opinions.