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To: sdb4q who wrote (51145)	11/19/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<<People are making too much of the comparison with Microsoft>> Steve, Your comparison points out the differences very well. There is no good(close) analogy for QCOM, so Microsoft is often used as the best example. And that is all it is, the best example. There is only one Q, and we have it. All the more sweeter for long term holders who spent countless hours explaining the Q story long before it became famous. Here's to us!!! Cooters

To: sdb4q who wrote (51145)	11/19/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hi Steve, it might seem to be unimportant now, but cancer grows from an insignificant cell. According to Thomas Sowell, there was nothing illegal which could be pointed to as illegal before the prosecution. You say bundling is illegal. Bundling is tying products together so if you want one, you have to buy the other. It is a very, very common marketing strategy. I recall Steve Martin getting irritated at bundling in "Father of the Bride" at the bundling of bread and sausages or something and being arrested when unbundling them right there in the supermarket. You will see bundling everywhere. Try unbundling them yourself and see what support you get from the police. Microsoft didn't threaten anyone. Unless you call everything a threat. The point they made was that if somebody wants a licence for Microsoft products, they have to use them and install them as is. No messing around with them. That seem perfectly sensible to me. A company does not want a Big Mac to have the onion left out in Arkansas and the sauce left out in Oregon. Customers would wonder what the hell and buy elsewhere. If a franchisee or licensee doesn't want to use the product in accordance with the terms they can agree on, then they are welcome to use some other product. Go sell an Apple or something. Did you read Thomas Sowell's critique of Jackson's finding of facts? Can you quote the law which says tying or bundling is illegal? The Sun guy is lining up Qualcomm for a challenge on the right to charge what they like for their patented technology. There are a lot of other people right behind. The time to kill cancer cells is the beginning before they breed and mutate. The time to stop the cargo cult is at the beginning. Too late for Microsoft by the look of it. The crooks and thieves have had their day with a Hall of Mirrors Judge who knows how to run Silicon Valley. I'm a customer of Microsoft's and I don't feel ripped off. I think they do a great job. The Apple monopoly was far more expensive and far less effective in the products they tried to sell me. From the beginning!! Way back in 1986. The IBM OS/2 monopoly was hopeless too. There is no monopoly apart from the fact that every single transaction ever conducted by anybody in any business was a monopoly if you define the category of the transaction narrowly enough. To make it clear, two dairies side by side selling the same Coca Cola. One has the sunnier side of the street. They have a monopoly on that sun. They should not also sell pies or they are leveraging their unfair monopoly. They must not give a free lollipop with a Coca Cola or they are tying products and leveraging their monopoly position. If they charge a few cents more than the opposition, they are damaging the consumer. Quick, call Judge Jackson. This is unfair discrimination against the other shop and what's more, it is the poor and innocent children being hurt. Woe is us!! Sun is a USA company. They already attacked Microsoft. They obviously have the taste of blood and are going after Qualcomm. That was what that guy was saying. Quite directly. He did not say inventors can charge what they like, he said they should get a reasonable reward. Envy, jealousy, greed, cargo-cult, piracy, theft. The oldest way of getting stuff and been going since the first animals fought over territory, food and females. Humans are like chimps. They even use chimps to select stocks. Watch your money Q! investors. The bandits are eyeing your loot. Mqurice