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Technology Stocks : The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company
QCOM 165.77-4.7%3:37 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (11962)6/10/2000 2:15:00 AM
From: JGoren  Read Replies (1) of 13582
 
One of the issues on appeal will be whether the market was defined correctly as the "desktop computers using Intel chip." I wonder whether the market was too narrowly defined. The thing I find really weird is the argument (finding) that Netscape was unable to get on the desktop. I have bought computers, and I always got Netscape as well as Internet Explorer bundled.

Qcom clearly has a monopoly in cdma wireless using a Qcom chip. Duh. That's what patent law is for. But, the competition with GSM, TDMA can hardly be said to be anything but fearce, to say the least. Nevertheless, if one takes DOJ's argument to its logical extension, Qcom violates the anti-trust law by incorporating into its chips more features, e.g. GPS. DOJ would require Qcom to have GPS as a separate software program, so the handset maker or carrier can use someone else's software program. No company will be able to embed additional features. Then, of course, the whole idea of online embedded software has to go because it's anti-competitive. AOL better watch out; it can't place applications software online, because it would be anti-competitive to in-the-box software.

If estate taxes go away, then the DOJ will take over the role of destroying wealth before the person dies.
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