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To: engineer who wrote (4564)	12/24/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 13582

I wasn't recommending that this guy buy the puts, i was just saying that his ability to buy puts to hedge his unvested option position didn't have anything to do with the fact that the options are not vested yet, nor with the fact that they are not marketable. The put transaction is unrelated to his existing position in every way but in his mind.

To: engineer who wrote (4564)	12/27/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 13582

To the comm engineers here, can you explain to me what makes CDMA ASICs harder to manufacture than TDMA or any other comm protocol? I've read through some of the literature regarding CDMA, the orthogonal codes, etc, and it is all very sophisticated. But, aside from whatever IPRs Q owns on the CDMA protocols, is there something about CDMA that gives them BTEs over another company that wanted to manufacture the same chips, assuming they had the necessary patents or licenses? TIA