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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (8940)	2/27/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Not so fast Caxton! Rule number one was "Don't tell people everything you know". But you didn't put number two in there. Now you tell people royalties are 2 - 5%. That makes me think rule number two is "Tell people things you don't know." I saw that 2-5% were the numbers bandied about for the latest European attempt at nicking off with Qualcomm's software, but I've never seen anything to suggest that is the price they charge existing licensees. In fact, I thought it was a bit nearer 6 or 7% based on Korea payments. Those seem like small numbers, but when 3 billion people have about 5 cdmaOne using appliance/gadgets each and they pay Qualcomm a dollar or two or more for each gadget, that is going to be more billions than fit on my calculator. This is real money. Don't forget that cdmaOne and the related IPR of Qualcomm doesn't stop at the odd cellphone here and there. It is fashionable to say that royalties don't matter, unless you are squealing like a pig because Qualcomm won't give you free use of their property. Why do the European and Korean pigs squeal if royalties are so trivial? They even claim it will slow or stop cdmaOne. Fat chance. Mqurice

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (8940)	2/27/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

*off topic* Depending on how "real" you think this information is. Born 23 February 1998, Tarken James Moore, to Tennille Moore of Canada who was an exchange student at Yamate High School with Tarken Winn [life just got more confusing] who was an exchange student there the same year. I hasten to add Tarken M is namesake only. Father is a Korean living in Canada. Where this becomes real information, is that the world is shrinking. Tarken is a Turkish name. The USA still calls foreigners "aliens", which is a reasonable use of the word, but does these days conjure up a greater difference than there really is. Incidentally, Tarken W was born in Canada, of dinkum Kiwi parents [well, sort of dinkum - it's hard to retain ethnic purity and a master race these days, despite many people's attempts to do so]. So Korean problems are our problems, but don't worry, a problem shared is a problem halved. So Qualcomm will share the problems of its Korean friends and the cdmaOne dance will continue. No worries. Happy birthday to 23 February people! There must be about 10 million people born that day. Nearly all different. Oh for some human planned human cloning to bring some sense to the world. Identical twins are too random. Mqurice [personally, I reckon that is exactly on topic, but you know how rabid some people are].