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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 163.32+2.3%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: Bux who wrote (30158)5/17/1999 3:18:00 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
While the phrase "proprietary control" has no formal definition, I would say it is inaccurate to say the Q has given this up.

I think reiterating Geoffrey Moore's definition of "Proprietary control" might be helpful. What Qualcomm has is Open, Proprietary, control. This means that the standard is published, and not secret. Anyone can build to it, but you have to pay Qualcomm.
There is a tendency in the Tech community to think of "open" as committee controlled. This was tried by the Unix community.

In hyper growth markets, the most rapidly proliferating architectures have proved to be both proprietary and open., because the architecture can adapt rapidly and stay coherent. We are getting parallel development by many vendors.
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