I suppose it's competition in action. The original masters of the universe, Andrew Viterbi, Irwin Jacobs, Klein Gilhousen, Roberto Padovani and co who patented ideas which breached the laws of physics are now in their dotage and haven't personally created a patent for years [I guess].
For well over a decade, QCOM has been hiring all and sundry in a competitive marketplace for engineering talent.
They are now a business churning out products and services which are competing with hordes of others, all staking claims in the biggest gold rush since the Yukon.
Sure, QCOM has patents, but that's just part of the business. And even those are under threat of not being defended by the USA as patents are seen by many as unfair monopolies, even though they are specifically created by governments to encourage people to invent things which will be of great benefit.
Dr Irwin Jacobs has been talking about his concern about the lack of respect for intellectual property rights. Rightly so.
Mqurice
PS: You have 111 "ignores". I wonder if they will reduce as people get sick of sneak peeks; even if in the privacy of their own home - they should be aware that their wives can check their hard-disk for evidence of sneaky-peeky, which makes me think of floppy disks, of which there aren't any, which makes me think of the amazing little 1 gigabyte tiny bit of plastic Tarken-san showed me the other day which goes in his EV-DO powered Apache. 1 gigabyte!! I bought a computer in 1990 with 40 megabytes of huge hard disk, thinking that I was being stupid and that 20 megabytes was plenty but I might as well get enough to last for 20 years. Now, 1 gigabyte takes up nearly no space, has no moving parts, works really fast, costs nearly nothing. And, things are just getting going. A terabyte of data going faster and cheaper must be just around the corner. |
