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From: mcgredo@CS.ORST.EDU (Don Mcgregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Data-PCS (Apple) Petition - Please Comment!
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Date: 13 May 91 18:21:57 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Personally, I find it hard to take the petition seriously. It seems to me to
> be more business-politics BS rather than anything of technical interest. More
> time and resource wasted in legislation and litigation instead of engineering
> and innovation.

That's exactly the point.  If there is going to be any technical advancement
in wireless LANs and wireless communication, something like this has to 
happen.  If you don't jump through the hoops now, you don't get any neat toys
to play with a couple years down the road.

The Apple lawyers involved in this project are actually helping the 
technoids; they're doing all the groundwork so that the engineers can
ship wireless products without being tossed into jail for illegal use
of the airwaves.

Don McGregor
mcgredo@typhoon.cs.orst.edu