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To: Walter Morton who wrote (3980)	5/11/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: BuddyW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Well, I must say that it has been an interesting read tonight. Mr. Morton has managed to antagonize quite a few. It's an odd position he takes. Makes me wonder if he's not one step up the food-chain from folks like flodyie who's a paid schill of the MMs. Walter's just a little more subtle. Bottom line is that little uneasiness they want you to feel in order to take that profit and sell now so your shares can get sucked up. Anyhow, as others have said, back on topic. My concern with Walter's questioning is that he seems to put the entire onus of the music player on EDIG. This seems quite unreasonable. They provide an OS for flash memory. In the Lanier case, they have put a specialized file system on top of that OS for the handheld recorder. My guess would be that there is a file system for the music player as well. But the old BellLabs (Lucent) would have quite a few systems programmer types who would help in this effort. Especially to develop the new EPAC standard. In fact, from an EETIMEs article: "Epac licenses Lucent said it is hammering out deals with Web sites and record labels to carry Epac-encoded music. It plans to license Epac to other device makers and to sell the e.Digital players to OEMs. DSP support for the e.Digital device is expected to be expanded to devices from Lucent Microelectronics and others. " So if Lucent is licensing EPAC, it must have written that piece of the protocol pie. Maybe everything below the EPAC file system is EDIG's. If so, I expect a nice cut for them when the deal is signed with Lucent. Also, do you really think the design of the e.Digital player had no input from Lucent? Lots of smart guys over there in New Jersey. EE types. Lots o patents. So Walter, take at least on thing from this rambling missive. Put all your thoughts in one message. fqwiii...