***Sun Whining like 747s*** Yes Bux, and the other guy from Sun was saying that inventors {IPR holders} should not license their patents for what the market will bear but for reasonable compensation. Reasonable to be defined by Sun I suppose.
They are from the same company which gets big payola from Java with copyright IPR if I'm not yet-again-mistaken. They do not allow their Java source code to be freely available, disassembled and corrupted by Microsoft and turned into a different form. Funny that Microsoft is supposed to accept their software be mutilated, sold in bits and pieces and otherwise taken out of their hands.
As you say, Sun whined about monopolies and now want a big one in telecoms [a single monopolistic standard enforced by government monopoly power].
Incidentally, I've spent a few hours today watching the Telecosm99 George Gilder show. It's very interesting. I need more bandwidth and I need it via WWeb. They say that that we are going to get it [not in so many words].
They say [The Innovator's Dilemma author] that WWeb is coming ready or not [not quite those words] and it is disruptive marauding technology.
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With the amazing new fibre, Global Crossing, optic switches, JDSU, Cisco with that other company, photon phragmenters and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Engineering School full of optics labs and all that stuff, IT [or The Web for now] is going to very easily reach to any significant town at near zero cost per bit. That's very good news for Qualcomm.
Qualcomm can collect the near zero-cost photons from the fibre and spray them out to the WWeb. The costs will be really low. Nortel is hoping to zoom WWeb costs down from 30 cents per megabyte to 4c or whatever it was in a few short years. They'll have to hurry because others will be doing it too.
So voice will be free along with the data. Many WWeb clicks will earn credits and these credits will be used for carrying voice [or some such]. The Web sites people click to will pay for the 'calls'. That's my theory today anyway.
Watch WWeb take off much faster than anyone thought likely. HDR will start the race. Actually, it's already started with IS-95B in Korea and Japan. Competitors will panic when they see Korea Telecom Freetel, Microsoft and Qualcomm galloping across the WWeb landscape like the three horses of the apocalypse [yes, I know there are four in mythology]. Okay, Lucent too, which will supply the infrastructure.
Who is going to want to be last into the WWeb? They'll be looking for a new job.
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