To: Richard Belanger who wrote (1567 ) 3/31/2000 6:57:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Wall Street Journal is happy for people to use their publication without paying rent! Cool! Now we don't have to worry about outright cutting and pasting their articles where we like. They don't think a modern economy should accommodate 'rentiers' such as QUALCOMM. To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (8140)Motorola and Ericsson made it clear they never shared the market's euphoria over Qualcomm's stronghold in wireless. Motorola recently launched 1XRTT, a standard to upstage Qualcomm in wireless broadband. The incentives to work around, erode or slime Qualcomm's patents are a healthy thing. We shouldn't pooh-pooh the social virtues of a certain amount of patent infringement. A modern economy will tolerate rentiers only up to a point. > >
