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To: carranza2 who wrote (7950)	8/29/2001 6:14:42 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Its technology is so ahead of the game it can successfully make "take it or leave it" demands. Where did I hear this before... Oh yes, IBM. IBM holds the basic patents for almost every facet of computer technology. Yet, they have an almost insignificant effect on its bottom line -- their most profitable patents were their PC patents which are now expiring. Is IBM that dumb? Technology is moving too fast for any one company to lay claim to a fundamental technology for more than a few years. QCOM's "all or nothing" strategy does wonderful things to its image as a prolific innovator -- look! everybody is paying for ALL our patents. But, I think, the patents people are paying for are a few key early nineties patents that enable practical use of CDMA in mobile telephony; the rest can be circumvented. Kyros