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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 165.07-1.0%Nov 18 3:59 PM EST
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To: John Biddle who wrote (30759)1/6/2003 10:05:32 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (2) of 196674
 
Re: Sendo v. Microsoft sounds very much like an earlier civil action between Stac Electronics and Microsoft, back in the early 1990's. In that action, MSFT committed to using Stacker compression software in its Windows OS (to facilitate use of Windows on computers that were a bit shy of DRAM for the humongous requirements of Windows). Then MSFT changed the Stacker program code very slightly and dissolved its agreement to use Stacker software on the notion that MSFT had developed something on its own that worked just as well. This brought on a patent infringement suit, in which Stac defeated Microsoft.

While the cause of action in Sendo's suit is different, the pattern of behavior of MSFT remains the same. Some things never change, particularly when a large company gets the blessing of a federal appellate court, which it can then interpret as a message to do whatever you want to whomever you choose.

To lump MSFT and QCOM together in a single theory of management, as the article does, couldn't be farther from the truth. The MSFT pattern is to expropriate original technology for its own benefit, hoping that brawn will more than compensate for a minimal brain. QCOM, on the other hand, has purposely encouraged others to use its original technology, for a price that few can afford to resist. QCOM and MSFT are really at opposite ends of the management spectrum. Let's hope the QCOM strategy prevails.

Art Bechhoefer
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