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To: Catcher who wrote (3085)	11/9/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Bux	Respond to of 13582

One more recollection from the HDR conference. Irwin Jacobs was asked about licenses for HDR. He replied that some already have licenses and those that only have IS-95 licenses would need to sign one (before HDR implemented). The additional one time license fee would be low or maybe even zero but he didn't elaborate. Of course the ongoing royalties for HDR would be similar to IS-95 royalties. When discussing subscriber unit royalties relating to HDR enabled notebooks he made a reference to the "motherboard" which made me think the royalty will be calculated on the value of the motherboard. That was the context but he didn't explicitly say that is how it will work. Other recollections and interpretations would be appreciated as I have never been an excellent note taker. He also thought there will be HDR enabled desktop computers even though he believes in the near future most will consider their handset to be their computer and the OS on these handsets will not be a limited, slimmed-down OS but a fully capable...like NT or whatever or whoever is doing that (a humorous reference to the recent MSFT ruling). He also mentioned that he thought there would be a profitable and efficient synergy between stationary home HDR users who tend to surf early morning and later evening and mobile users who surf when out and about during the day. In other words a more even network load could result. Bux