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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (771)	10/27/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 5853

Bill, "Identify the irresistable [sic] secular forces and buy the leader(s) in that field." Your quote. You found it, QUALCOMM. You ask: "Is QCOM now more interested in lobbying and litigating than innovating?" No, but innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. QUALCOMM has done the innovation. Now, under attack from L M Ericsson, DoCoMo and others they must seek the protection of courts, political and military systems so that QUALCOMM gets the rewards for their creations. QUALCOMM is not some golden goose, which blithely lays eggs for others to come along and help themselves. Of course they are lobbying and litigating to protect themselves. What do you expect? QUALCOMM's cdmaOne and cdma2000 are the wireless irresistible forces which will be part of the abstract, intangible world of the 21st century. They need to protect their property. That should not surprise you. It is L M Ericsson and the others who seek to litigate and lobby their way to financial success rather than innovate. L M Ericsson denied that IS-95 CDMA could or would work. Professor Lusignan and others pontificated as late as 1994 and the end of 1996 that it breached the laws of physics. Now it is seen to work and seen to be the future of wireless. So the slavering Ericsson gang seek to steal what they could not create. Maurice