Persson said he was confident a solution would be found. "These intellectual-property-rights issues are very common in the high-tech industry," he said, adding, "The industry won't let one company obstruct the whole process."
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Oh really? The industry will just steal the IP from Qualcomm or just what does this drooling SETI Persson mean by that comment. Not much of an olive branch there. SETI [stolen extra-terrestial intelligence]is running a big bureaucratic jamboree with absurd voting rights based on the silly idea that because a bunch of people in some industry club have a majority, they are then able to pinch somebody's inventions.
Qualcomm only just joined, had one voting right because their sales are so small because they are so new and didn't get a look in to present their story last year. Being last on the agenda and the meeting closed before they were heard.
Ericy did not offer any olive branch. Nilsson made a smart condescending comment that they'd throw Qualcomm some bone for having fiddled with a bit of CDMA.
Thanks for the link! Let's see what happens when push comes to shove and the USA Congress decides on free enterprise, capitalism or theft of private property for the 'greater good'. I hope Janet Reno doesn't get a look in because she will recognize a monopoly when she sees one in Q.com and their cmdaOne/cdma2000 [if she could only look carefully she would see monopolies absolutely everywhere since every space in the universe has its unique wave function monopoly, every person, every ice-cream shop, every software company, every electricity supplier and everything else which isn't a valueless commodity].
Ericsson and SETI can only negotiate with Qualcomm by damaging their own worldwide interests and Qualcomm's interests in Europe. So the longer the delay, the more the advantage to Qualcomm, though Qualcomm would benefit most by an immediate agreement gaining access to Europe. Of course, the USA could raise the stakes and require market access to Europe without Qualcomm having to sell use of their IP. Then Ericsson would lose out totally.
The key to Versailles is Congress and their will to promote free enterprise or sludgy socialism and confiscation of private property. Since it is early days, Qualcomm can afford to wait to see if they get more advantage.
4% for cdma2000 and Qualcomm would sign them all up now. Personally, I'd hold for 6% = cheap at the price. But 7.314159% would be more appropriate since the difficulty of creating a competitive product is so high and the value of using the patents is so high - there being a huge profitable market waiting. Nokia and Motorola couldn't even produce cdmaOne chips and good handsets let alone cdma2000 multimedia. Maybe 12% would be more appropriate.
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