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Technology Stocks : The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company
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To: cfoe who wrote (3017)11/7/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (2) of 13582
 
The judge in this case was appointed by the Reagan administration and is about as conservative as they come. The testimony entered at trial and discussed in the factfindings surely provides a reasonable basis for bringing and antitrust action. One lawyer not connected with either side commented a few months ago that if the court concluded there was no antitrust violation here, then we don't have any antitrust law.

In the interest of maintaining a level playing field, which one can also argue IMPROVES competition, I think the Justice Department was correct in bringing the lawsuit. How would you or anyone like to be on the receiving end of some of the MSFT tactics outlined in the factfinding document? Another lawyer commenting in the New York Times said that before the case started, Microsoft could make you lose. Now if you lose, you'll lose because of your own mistakes. That in itself is a great victory for competition.

Microsoft and QUALCOMM are so different in the way they handle competition that investors ought to consider which strategy ultimately is in the shareholders' best interests. A look at QUALCOMM's success answers this question for me, without any doubt: It isn't necessary to control every single facet of a product. It is much better, in terms of advancing the use of the product, and ultimately the market for the product and the profits to be made from the product, to share the technology, as QUALCOMM has done. It also results in less litigation.
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