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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1124195)3/12/2019 3:39:23 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574683
 
Your post has many broad stroke arguments. If Qualcomm licenses their IP then anyone can get it and cheat on per item license payments. And anyone can rip off parts and resell claiming original IP. The question comes down to has Qualcomm in their business practices exceeded whatever threshold is considered monopoly coercion or extortion in the pricing of their IP licensing. I do not have a clue.

Whatever is decided, I would expect the US to prohibit certain Chinese tech in some contracts. (Assuming demo.chicom.ocrats do not take over.) I believe that Qualcomm will continue to dominate in the USA. Now the rest of the world is stupid and those who hate President Trump may wish to be all the stupid they can be. The USA is bad and China is all victims of bad USA.

US DOD has restricted IP content and location manufacturing in many if not all DOD or security-related contracts.

I worked directly for DOD on tech, commercial consumer and industrial tech and DOD private sector USA and foreign ally tech. Missiles, Torpedos, Radar and the Space Shuttle and ........