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

To: pyslent who wrote (49745)	1/21/2006 3:36:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197039

You have pointed out a major problem. It drives me nuts the way service providers wreck things. <if I want to install OperaMini on my J2ME phone, no one can stop me. If I want to install it on a BREW phone, no one will let me.> Since the only people who benefit from viruses are the virus preventers, such as Symantec, it would not surprise me if those writing viruses are those employed in the industry. Not necessarily paid on a commission basis by the companies, but they would certainly not like all viruses to go away any time soon. I know writing viruses is supposed to be great fun, like golf for geeks, and prosecutions so far don't show any links to the virus-stopping industry [that I'm aware of], but I remain suspicious. I suppose I could check Google to see how many prosecutions there have been and who they were. Got a handy list? It must be fun to be a nasty geek and write a bug which scores a hole in one so he can boast to his mates that he got further, faster, and took down more computers than his sissy mates. Graffiti writ large. I wonder if they have a handicap system. Mqurice