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

To: Bill Wolf who wrote (68987)	9/18/2007 12:10:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197680

Ronald Cass, former commissioner and vice-chairman of the International Trade Commission [ITC] is jealous of another part of the bureaucracy getting a bigger piece of the action. Kroes has loaded a huge fine on Microsoft and the ITC can't get huge loads of dosh. They just ban importation. Who can fine the most? That's the name of the game. Some kleptocrat is bound to want to one-up Kroes and QUALCOMM has got lots of cash to loot. The monopoly which is the problem is the government monopoly. All other so-called "monopolies" have competition. It would be so fun to see Microsoft decide to stop selling licences for their software in Europe [or places where the KKK is in charge] The whole anti-monopoly law department should be discarded. Anti-monopoly only applies to big companies, so it's not even rule of law, it's just rule of grab a lot of money. If Microsoft bundles anything they like and charges anything they like, it wouldn't matter. If they are too much of a pain to deal with, people would stop buying their stuff. The law is designed not to protect consumers, but to protect the litigation industry and legal fees. Its very name is silly "Anti-trust law". There are no trusts. The nearest thing to trusts is government-enforced patent pools such as GSM. The government creates and sanctions the "trust" they purport to oppose. Microsoft doesn't have a "trust", so anti-trust law shouldn't apply. It should apply to trusts. QUALCOMM isn't in trusts, other than SETI, etc. Ironically, the government enforces the trusts, even if you think you are just an observer and not participating in the "trust". The Europeans will steal QUALCOMM's intellectual property and bundle it in the W-CDMA trust, which has a monopoly in Europe, which derived from the GSM Guild's monopolistic trust, protected by the governments of Europe. Mqurice