[Sussex] WiFi 802.11n will never be

[Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson]

Andrew

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:21:02AM +0100, Andrew Guard wrote:
> Looks like WiFi 802.11n will never be. The reason isn't down that
> doesn't work as it works well but patents. In fact some patents hold by
> Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
> They will not promise not to sue manufacturers of kit that work to
> standard so IEEE will not pass it.

This might be a nice precedent.  Unless Microsoft will not promise
not to sue anyone that implements MS-OOXML then ISO shouldn't pass 
that (in whatever form it takes) too.

Steve
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