Note that they have a different fee of 10% of item cost for vendors developing products utilizing their patents. Kind of a rape of the consumer for some fairly obvious ideas. WAP has a lot of appeal for low bandwidth (transaction oriented) data services to resource limited (small, cheap, portable) devices. WAP is just now starting to get off the ground, but it hasn't broken ground effect yet. This could crash it on takeoff. Geoworks should have waited a little bit longer before stabbing the rest of the forum in the back.
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Note that they have a different fee of 10% of item cost for vendors developing products utilizing their patents. Kind of a rape of the consumer for some fairly obvious ideas. WAP has a lot of appeal for low bandwidth (transaction oriented) data services to resource limited (small, cheap, portable) devices. WAP is just now starting to get off the ground, but it hasn't broken ground effect yet. This could crash it on takeoff. Geoworks should have waited a little bit longer before stabbing the rest of the forum in the back.