Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[Raglanroadie]

Ignoring the current spat with NOK it seems to me that predicting royalty reductions is alot like predicting recessions. Sooner or later one is bound to happen. I guess this is the hand he is playing. With respect to the current spat with NOK I think he is wrong. As a matter of belief I think that I will have learned far more by having been invested in Q than I will ever profit from it. That is the power of knowledge. To set my investment aside for the moment I have to say that what bothers me the most is the chance that the patent count scam may just fool enough people. It does not surprise me that this whole fishy thing smells of socialism. Then again why should I be surprised at what Europeans do? If this prevails, standards will be nothing but fronts for big government protected businesses. On another note I have to say I absolutely reject the whole stakeholder mindset. In the future the big existing companies will dilute any new and novel approach to such an extent that the newcomer will be marginalized. Think of it like old school Europeans looking downwards on the new-money class. Let us replace titles with standards I say. Maybe they think they are aggregating R&D across society. Whatever it is, it is un-American and ant-freedom at its core. Group think is NoThink, but try telling that to a European.