Re: [NTLK] [OT] Apple, Macintosh, 3rd Parties, and Market Share

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 12:01:57 PDT

On Apr 24, 2004, at 12:42 PM, David Ensteness wrote:

> Not according to Apple or Lucent and I have not read anything about the
> IEEE creating it. Have a link?
>
> David
>
> On Apr 24, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
>
>> IEEE 802.11b was created by the IEEE; Lucent was the first to
>> implement
>> this standard and Apple was the first company to bring it to market
>> (using components built by Lucent).
>>
>> - Michael
>>
I thought the chronology was Apple & Lucent with the IEEE eventually
ratifying it as a standard (which is more the way they do things
anyways)
What I see is IEEE rarely creates the standard but does ratify them
after the fact and MAKE them standards. 

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