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To: DownSouth who wrote (28998)	7/27/2000 10:17:22 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

DS, eau contrare When you use your French on me, get the spelling right! :) You're absolutely right of course. I was clarifying a much more limited aspect of the issue of licensing as opposed to the issue of selling the product. Another difference between Qualcomm's licensing and Microsoft's licensing is that after licensing Qualcomm's product you get product support. :) --Mike Buckley

To: DownSouth who wrote (28998)	7/27/2000 10:37:22 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

It may be more appropriate to compare a MSFT developer toolkit, to Spinco IPR licencing ? one of the many ways MSFT has its hold is that despite a bunch of dev tool kits that get licensed, there are more than a few "undocumented features/tweaks" that the non-MSFT developers dont have access to. Would QCOM/Spinco play such a game ? If they did, then it'd be hard for others to catch up. If they didn't then it may well come down to "who makes better ASICS" with the same IPR. cheers, kumar