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To: w molloy who wrote (3898)	2/13/2000 6:09:00 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5195

Another feckless debate about a lawsuit in progress, Mollyboy? Thanks but no thanks. Do you really think that SI doesn't have the capacity to discern between the feigned vulgarity of people like me and Jim, and the REAL vulgarity of people like you and Bux who start off questioning other people's integrity and intelligence and then try to foist their tepid opinions on other people while displaying a pathetic command of even the most basic facts about the complex legal and financial issues of a multi-year turnaround story like IDC? If they don't then adios to them. You still haven't contributed one damn useful datapoint to this board. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Is it any wonder that you get treated the way you do? Get lost, Molly. Look at the difference between you and the rest of the IDC community. You're trying to start yet another fruitless debate about the un-debatable while folks at the IDC club -- sorry, riff raff like you can only read but not post -- are swapping background notes about the interrelated Motorola and Ericsson cases. ragingbull.com The irony here is that your beloved QCOM has a major court case against Motorola in April involving representative claims in 10 utility patents. The smartest thing Ericsson did was to settle with QCOM regarding 3g -- which many believe is 5-10 years away and represents 0 REAL WORLD sales -- and focus on IDC -- which involves over 80% of its REAL WORLD TDMA/GSM sales -- especially since Lucent and Nortel are gearing up to mount a multi-year challenge to Ericsson's industry-leading position in infrastructure. Do you remember John Chambers' (Cisco) recent comment about Ericsson while he was in Europe putting into motion yet another part of Cisco's IP strategy: Ericsson is a jewel encased in mud. That's a very public comment from one of the best acquirers of technology in Corporate America. Now consider this as a parting gift from the IDC community and go away: Wireless Wave II Goldman Sachs goldmansachs.com If ever there was a battle going on, it has comprehensively laid to rest by the detente between Ericsson and Qualcomm. Whether there is a single converged standard for 3G matters as little as whether each supplier of GSM infrastructure has its own "flavor" of the technology. Operators will buy technology with the simplest and cheapest migration path from their current network, and consumers will not care what acronyms are attached to the services they want.