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To: Rush Limpbore who wrote (53171)	7/5/2006 5:11:38 PM
From: scratchmyback	Respond to of 197306

<<GSM is proprietary and Nokia loves it because it is one of the main proprietors. Jeezus.>> Well, Nokia did not buy Flarion but they bought Intellisync for USD 430M aproximately at the same time. One could say that Nokia voted with their money for a non-proprietary technology rather than a proprietary one. BTW, my interpretation of proprietary is a business model which is mainly based on royalty income from licensing proprietary technologies. While Nokia prefers to collect the money from end-customers.