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To: kech who wrote (30088)	5/15/1999 12:19:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Tom, Thanks for the quick response. Where am I wrong in thinking that Qualcomm continues to have proprietary control and that the infrastructure biz being in different hands is irrelevant? Assume I own a proprietary technology for a special kind of widget. To sell the widgets, a huge world-wide build-out of giant widget-making machines is required. I decide I want to be in the royalty biz for lots of reasons, so I sell the part of the biz that makes the widget-making machines. I don't give up any proprietary control because the new owner of the widget-making machine still has to pay me for each widget that gets made. Relative to the question of giving up control, what's the difference between my widget biz and Qualcomm's CDMA biz? --Mike Buckley