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

To: Q8tfreebe who wrote (56570)	11/2/2006 4:54:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196977

Q8, I didn't mean that others don't contribute value. I spent a few years as an oil salesman and I certainly thought I was adding value. But without the engineers who built the refineries and designed the cars, trucks, factories, nuclear reactors [manufacturing them needs lubricants] and all the other customers, I'd have been reduced to selling axle grease for Roman chariots and I'd have probably been turfed in the ring as a gladiator. Lawyers contribute value too - engineers would have trouble fighting off the GSM Guild hagfish, sliming and biting at Mighty Q. So do finance managers - my beloved Globalstar would not be back in business without somebody to handle all those accounting and SEC rules, and arrange the IPO. But without the CDMA coding, there would be nothing for the rest to clip the ticket. The non-engineers are a bit like the non-QCOM W-CDMA patents. Yes, they are essential to the standard conventions, providing bells, whistles and upholstery, but not really essential to the function of the technology. Mqurice