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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1132)	11/5/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 34857

Maybe there's more to the story than handset OS's. Missed something. Was Nokia also approached? Who says once this standards fight is worked out Q won't support Symbiamn, Palm, and CE. Has it occured to you that the result of this alliance could be that "your" competitors become INTC, HP, CPQ and DELL, with a chip courtesy Q added on? DMG

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1132)	11/5/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

That sort of thinking always puzzles me. It is the concept that businesses 'control' the customers or 'own' something other than their Intellectual Propert and balance sheet assets. The only control resides with governments. The rest is choice. If governments adopt a free market approach, it is irrelevant whether those '...backing Symbian are hostile towards Microsoft's attempts to infiltrate the mobile market'. Nobody's permission or help is needed for Microsoft and QUALCOMM to supply any customer who wants to buy. All the hostility in the world from the grim Symbian gang is inconsequential. Money, which Microsoft has in bulk, and IP brains, which QUALCOMM has in bulk are all the combination needed. They buy anything else they need. Why 'snag some Korean companies'? This new company seems to be lining up to produce the goods themselves. I guess an evolution, or punctuated equilibrium leap, of the old Omnitracs business. MSFT has many billions in cash. That buys a LOT of stuff. Maurice