The Internet beat out OSI because of the sort of people who use sci-hub. We can kill Elsevier the same way.
This isn't some wild conspiracy theory. I was there, plus I've been on the internet-history mailing list, where Internet pioneers still walk the Earth (the ones still living). I recently instigated a discussion on GOSIP (1990), which was supposed to finally drive a stake in the heart of TCP.
Nearly everyone in academia and the non-profit sector jumped on TCP early in the 80s and before, and accumulated decades of actual operational experience with it. If you were choosing a protocol for your network, you knew all the devices ran TCP and could talk to each other. Anything new you bought surely would, too.
Interop conferences were held, where vendors showed up and made sure they could play, too.
For OSI, not so much. Which OSI "profile" did they support, for one thing?
All this happened because while the telecoms and governments were swearing that OSI would win in the end, the people actually in the field were making TCP just work.
So if you say that scientists prefer sci-hub and other open access: that's how we win. Let's tackle the issues with it if there are any, patiently, one by one. Eventually it'll be a fait accompli.
This isn't some wild conspiracy theory. I was there, plus I've been on the internet-history mailing list, where Internet pioneers still walk the Earth (the ones still living). I recently instigated a discussion on GOSIP (1990), which was supposed to finally drive a stake in the heart of TCP.
Nearly everyone in academia and the non-profit sector jumped on TCP early in the 80s and before, and accumulated decades of actual operational experience with it. If you were choosing a protocol for your network, you knew all the devices ran TCP and could talk to each other. Anything new you bought surely would, too. Interop conferences were held, where vendors showed up and made sure they could play, too.
For OSI, not so much. Which OSI "profile" did they support, for one thing?
All this happened because while the telecoms and governments were swearing that OSI would win in the end, the people actually in the field were making TCP just work.
So if you say that scientists prefer sci-hub and other open access: that's how we win. Let's tackle the issues with it if there are any, patiently, one by one. Eventually it'll be a fait accompli.