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To: idler who wrote (49792)	11/14/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: MileHigh	Respond to of 152472

Part of the reason that article was written is because there is always someone out there that wants to punish success. They think success is bad and that Q must have become so successful through unscrupulous means. They do not understand value creation and the capital markets. In a way, I think many of these types are socialists, or worse, closet communists. May sound paranoid or hysterical, but in many cases I think it is the case. MileHigh

To: idler who wrote (49792)	11/14/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

idler, I counted 7 litigations pending, one of which was the demand that Motorola stop using the patents it licensed from qcom while qcom continue using those patents from Mot. They are playing hardball out there but nobody has a dominant position like MS has, although they'd like to. On a seperate topic, discussion of the valuation implies that the earnings discussed are infact real money, well they are consistently charging this or that as non-recurring item so that the sum total per share this company has earned since 1993 is $2.55 !! Can they ever just operate the business and tell you what they earned? the share count has also been dramatically increasing, perhaps one reason for its favorable reviews is that, as of July 21, 1999 Lehman Bros and Goldman Sachs paid $1,000,000,000 for 6.9M new shares at $156.50. I think you can safely conclude that few in the investment banking industry will venture a negative word on the stock, at least until this deal is far behind them. Earnings 1999 Per Share Fiscal (Diluted) (1) Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Year Operating (2) $0.33 $0.41 $0.75 $0.91 $2.46 Pro Forma (3) $0.59 $0.60 $0.86 $0.91 $2.99 Reported $0.33 $(0.29) $0.35 $0.73 $1.24