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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (8444)	10/18/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: voop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Hi again John I agree and meant to imply that the patent listed was its relevent one (based on description, I have not taken the time to read it nor am I a techhie) but most of the other patents you were able to find involved industrial processes and telecommunications. Important I hope. But it is still curious how few patents they have with this small kernal and impressive reliability of an RTOS. I mean, if it was so easy, why have not Sun, MSFT engineered their own or reverse engineered WIND's if there is little patent protection to the RTOS. Gorilladom can be acheived with this stock but the execution needs to be flawless. And I still question the barriers to competition issue with the patent. I assume, please corect me if I am wrong, that there would still be high switching costs if clients are designing their application software to run on top of the WIND RTOS as it would need to be redesign for updates should they change vendors. I also wish there were in the thick of the wireless phone browsing a la Symbian et al. They spent dollars from a secondary on Zinc and the former Liberate/Oracle (forgot what it is called)on a GUI and I have not seem their product reaching the consumer which would help the PR and light the fire Thanks Voop