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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: propitious7 who wrote (35247)	6/4/2003 4:35:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 196546

<I have no knowledge of what QCOM claimed in early or mid 90's.> It's easy to see why people still believe the lies told by L M Ericsson and the swindling nonsense about VW40 told by Nokia and the GSM Guild and promoted by the mindless sheeple in the media and vested interest analyst tribes. Until reality conflicts with and destroys the long-standing myths, the mysticism and false belief in false gods will continue. We don't hear much to the effect that CDMA can't work these days. Neither do we hear much that L M Ericsson owns CDMA and invented it in 1890. Neither do we hear much that CDMA is late to market and irrelevant. Neither do we hear that CDMA breaches the laws of physics. Nor that 10x capacity of analogue is a wild exaggeration. Nor do we hear that the HUGE royalties are stopping CDMA. Nor that QCOM is a minnow among monsters which will skoosh it. We don't hear that W-CDMA is owned by Nokia and L M Ericsson and no royalties are owed to QCOM for it. And so on .... It's amazing how long the nonsense has carried on. The urban myths just seem to carry on and get handed down from generation to generation. Until people have reason to doubt the stuff that's handed on, they just accept it. I know that I've thought a lot of muck was true over the decades, until I had reason to go back to first principles and examine the premises. It's frightening how much we think we know, which we actually don't know, and are simply repeating what other people tell us. Have you personally come across negative stuff about QUALCOMM? I've seen a few things. Not counting the obvious stuff like Vesper and Wingcast decisions. Unless you have personally observed something negative or false, assume it's untrue - for some reason, there are lots of people out to denigrate QUALCOMM. Ask those asserting that false claims were made to show you the actual 'from the horse's mouth' claims which have proven to be untrue. EricL has got a few chip sampling dates which didn't quite work out and makes a meal of those, but there's not much else to be found. Delayed ASIC delivery, by a few months, is pretty thin gruel. I'd be surprised if you know of shrill or combative comments either. I've never heard shrill. Some comments of course disagree with other opinions, but disagreement [such as when W-CDMA will be widely commercial] isn't combativeness. It turns out [as usual] that Irwin Jacobs was right and the GSM Guild was wrong. Mqurice