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To: brian h who wrote (11641)	6/18/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: brian h	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

All, Tim A., nothing personal against ERICY. This is what we as QCOM shareholders expect to happen in the future against ERICY if ERICY do not license from QCOM's CDMA patents. Excerpts from LU against CSCO: ''After numerous attempts to negotiate with Cisco, we were left with no other recourse but to file suit,'' said Michael Greene, Lucent Technologies' president of Intellectual Property. ''We license our patents to many companies in the industry, and our goal is to receive fair value for Bell Labs' discoveries and innovations -- innovations that are the result of more than $3 billion in annual investment. We're looking to protect our intellectual property with the appropriate agreements and for proper compensation.'' Brian H.

To: brian h who wrote (11641)	6/18/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Brian, if you really think free market 'sucks' in the real world, how else do you propose that people swap products? Have a government committee of trade authorities to set prices, handle rationing, determine quality, punish those who don't comply etc etc... I suppose. That is what the communist systems tried to do. It doesn't work. People enjoy a low standard of living which only gained ground because they had some natural resources such as oil and gas to sell to the west and the Russsians could import the products of creativity, intellectual property, energy and hope. It doesn't take every country to make it work. New Zealand products are excluded from markets in the protectionist, trade-restrictive world of the USA to ensure locals can rip off their countrymen by charging excessively high prices. No worries for us! We still let them sell everything here and sell our bits and pieces to some other place. Choosing to use all Microsoft products doesn't create a monopoly - they always had a monopoly on their particular products as do all other people with their particular products. All products and services are monopolies to a greater or lesser extent, depending on how effective the supplier is. Microsoft won't deliberately build bugs into a system. Customers don't like that sort of nonsense. If they did do that, people would flee in droves - never knowing when their system would be deliberatly crashed. Their competitors would point out the bugs to prospective customers and I for one would never trust Microsoft again. And elephants have LONG memories. Qualcomm is totally dependent on its monopolistic use of IPR and its employees to succeed. Any hint that monopolies on IPR won't be respected gives me the creeps. Mqurice

To: brian h who wrote (11641)	6/18/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

But can they exclude CDMA out of the GSM world (at least in Europe)! QCOM can always go to court to fight it (to get its foot in Europe if GSM world governements' laws allow or to defend its IPRs if any in US courts). Assuming the GSM-CDMA stuff works and the CDMA air interface is as good as ERICY claims, the Q's in Europe, like flint. Could be wrong, but it is hard to see how any judge (non criminal, of course) can change that picture. nf PS Welcome back Brian. Clearnet's extensive billboard campaign has finally subsided. A number of their boards have been replaced with "Wireless Universe" stuff. :-)