<Now if you threaten the life of someone by killing him by denying the medicine, (in this case the code or the chip) they start thinking about unorthodox ways of negotiating...>
ElM, theft and murder is an orthodox way of negotiating for criminals and morons. It has been done throughout history and continues now.
I doubt that a lot of people will die because they can't afford a CDMA cyberphone, but I'm sure some will.
You can perhaps see the dilemma that if somebody invents something at great cost to themselves and others steal it from them because they need it, then the number of inventions will be few.
In civilized places, people buy things. They go without other things to save for the things they want. Brazil is a hovel of a place because they have a criminal mindset. Same with China.
The USA and Switzerland and Luxembourg do not have that criminal mindset. They produce things that other people want to buy and that's how they get rich. Same with South Korea, Taiwan, Japan [since they gave up militaristic expansion, murder and theft], Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia etc etc etc...
Which is not to say those places are perfect. They are not and they are full of democratic theft - governments robbing people left, right and centre. They are just a lot less bad than Brazil, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, Egypt and so on.
Mqurice
PS: If QUALCOMM gets zero royalty, then the subscriber will not get a cheap phone. There is only something like 5% royalty on the wholesale price of a phone. With a $100 phone, that's $5. After retail, that would be $5 on a $200 phone. So, the price would be $205 instead of $200. Big deal!!! Do you really think that's a lot? <Goverments have to drop taxes, royalties should be deflated, and so that the consumer gets the phones they can afford.>
Governments should cut their charges. That's where the main cost of a phone comes from. Tax on all the workers who produce the phones and tax on all the workers who produce the components going into the phones and tax on the suppliers to those suppliers. That's where the big costs are. You could reduce phone wholesale prices to $30. |
