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To: bananawind who wrote (11404)	6/11/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Patents and Licensing One of the things that has been worrying me a little about the IPR squabble over W-CDMA has been the example of IBM and the PC cloners. The clone industry started when Compaq and others reverse engineered the innards of PCs, using "virgin engineers" to get around IBMs patents, and soon clobbered IBM in the marketplace. If it could happen to IBM, it could happen to Qualcomm. So it was comforting to read this in Robert X. Cringely's weekly installment: "At the very time when IBM was losing money on every PC they sold, when it looked like the clonemakers were tearing Big Blue to pieces, looking at another part of the IBM balance sheet showed a billion dollars in annual income from patent licensing. This was more profit than IBM ever got from making PCs." The full text is at: pbs.org So my next question/concern is: how tough are Qualcomm's legal contracts, and how tough is their legal department? (Tougher than Intel's, I hope). rhet0ric

To: bananawind who wrote (11404)	6/12/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 152472

Well said Bruce israel to test cdma biz.yahoo.com

To: bananawind who wrote (11404)	6/16/1998 7:57:00 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Jim - Firstly I want to thank you for your post. Sure I get emotional but these boards which didn't exist a few years ago act as a sort of shrink so you pour out your frustrations. It may not be what everyone thought the boards were for but they are going to evolve. Those of us that are less good in this field are bound to be helped by those that are much better or calmer or maybe even not much better but still apppear that way. I don't much care at this stage but believe me your post helps even if temporarily until the next downward lurch. I just posted to Maurice which reflects my general view ( from my restricted window). I was just too scared to log in over the last couple of days and have we had some excitement since your post to me!! Still in terms of valuations what now? Has the business changed radically since last week, has the business in Korea or Japan or Singapore changed radically in the last few days? Sad to say it seem to me that there has indeed been a change in fact an almighty massive one. Through the fog of all the Asian talk of last year and earlier this year it is now becoming more apparent every day that a great number of Japanese companies and financial institutions are bust and that the Japanese government is going to do nothing about it and when it eventually does do something it will be like trying to put out the towering inferno fire with a cup of water. There is nothin on the horizon but bad news and seriuosly bad news.. Its such ashame because everything was going aslong so well. But poor old Mr Greenspan is going to go down in history together with Neville Chamberlain...only a few days ago last week he said that thing were the best he'd every seen or heard of or soemthing like that. Within a few hours the slump had begun. Regards, L