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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 175.32+0.3%Dec 8 3:59 PM EST
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To: BoonDoggler who wrote (72880)1/1/2008 2:38:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn   of 196862
 
Seems like a good idea. I have never liked standards bodies since I got tangled up with them in my oil industry days. They take up a LOT of time and the end result is a Kremlin-style central-planning standard which is a lowest common denominator affair.

In such communist systems, where individuals provide property which is shared our in a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory way, things are not fair and reasonable but are hijacked by those who get power for benefit of them and their mates.

Caring and sharing sounds great in practise, until it is done in reality and the greedies, unethical, dishonest, powerful and self-serving get their dirty little paws on the proceeds.

<So perhaps for OFDM, Q should refuse to sit in on any LTE standards setting meetings, let everyone be aware that any OFDM standard will require use of Q's OFDM patents, and refuse to be bound by FRANDly obligations. Then charge 4 - 6 % for each patent. Shut down any possibility of LTE getting off the ground.
As soon as you agree to FRAND, you can be held hostage by sleaze balls taking advantage of this asinine system we have in place >

We now have some court-determined royalty rates which a court has considered reasonable which QUALCOMM can use as a basis for charging others, such as Broadcom and Nokia for example.

The idea that QUALCOMM's 4% is "high" is now absurd, as it always was patently clear [to some of us anyway].

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