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

From: Michael J. Hußmann (michael_at_michael-hussmann.de)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 15:37:48 PDT

David Ensteness (denstene_at_mac.com) wrote:

> Not according to Apple or Lucent and I have not read anything about the
> IEEE creating it.

It is called "IEEE 802.11b" because the IEEE created it. As to who
invented the underlying technology: Apple never claimed having invented
IEEE 802.11b (or IEEE 802.11, for that matter), and I cannot find any
claim by Lucent having invented it. I don't dispute the fact that
research efforts at Bell Labs were indeed influential in shaping IEEE
802.11 (as was Hedy Lamarr ...), but that's quite a different thing than
claiming that Lucent (or Apple) invented it.

- Michael

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