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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1139)	11/5/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

You better clean up your language, Maurice, or I'm declaring a boycott on you. We're not on Qcom-thread anymore... I call the shots here and I will not tolerate reindeer/Chernobyl-themed slurs, much less in the same sentence. Competition is great - and that is why Symbian will win. Both Microsoft and Qualcomm are adapted to environment where they are in total charge of the intellectual property rights. You know as well as I do that the current quality gap between CDMA and GSM mobile telephones results at least partly from lack of competition in the CDMA market. Why should the IT industry willingly walk into the trap of backing a standard which will be dominated by one telecom company? Is there a more resented software company than Microsoft or a more resented telecom company than Qualcomm? It's a marriage made in hell when you think about their prospects of winning backers and supporters in the rest of the industry. I much prefer the warm, fuzzy, communal, Nordic-style consensus-building approach of Nokia. They are perhaps the most beloved mobile telecom people around. To be succesful without triggering a Microsoft-like backlash is a real achievement. Tero