<story><title>Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/qualcomm-shares-drop-after-company-loses-u-s-antitrust-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&amp;quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with (except maybe Oracle). They are like a gorilla - they won&amp;#x27;t budge no matter how hard you push. Every little thing costs licensing money - from documents to tooling. We have a Qualcomm SoC for my current project, and support is abysmal.&lt;p&gt;They put in a minimal effort to provide support and only after you&amp;#x27;ve completed the onerous requirements to submit a support ticket. It involves retrieving tons of dumps and logs and such using their various Q-tools (which are very buggy and half-baked; many of them cost $25k+&amp;#x2F;year to license). Most of the time they&amp;#x27;ll just shrug and say &amp;quot;works on our setup&amp;quot; and refuse to help. We&amp;#x27;ll spend hundreds of man-hours debugging their crap until we find the issue in their kernel driver and then they won&amp;#x27;t even acknowledge it was a problem and will say &amp;quot;qmi_wwan is an open source driver. We do not support it.&amp;quot; Right, so you expect &lt;i&gt;everyone else&lt;/i&gt; to maintain and fix the bugs in qmi_wwan even though virtually ALL of your customers use it and you yourselves rely on it as a critical piece of your development platform. Good one, Qualcomm.</text></item><item><author>totalZero</author><text>This is the right ruling. These guys are the biggest IP bullies out there in tech. Their entire business model depends on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I thought Oracle was the premier example of that :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonkersworld.net&amp;#x2F;organizational-charts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonkersworld.net&amp;#x2F;organizational-charts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with&lt;/i&gt; (except maybe Oracle).&lt;p&gt;OK, we&amp;#x27;re on the same page ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/qualcomm-shares-drop-after-company-loses-u-s-antitrust-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&amp;quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with (except maybe Oracle). They are like a gorilla - they won&amp;#x27;t budge no matter how hard you push. Every little thing costs licensing money - from documents to tooling. We have a Qualcomm SoC for my current project, and support is abysmal.&lt;p&gt;They put in a minimal effort to provide support and only after you&amp;#x27;ve completed the onerous requirements to submit a support ticket. It involves retrieving tons of dumps and logs and such using their various Q-tools (which are very buggy and half-baked; many of them cost $25k+&amp;#x2F;year to license). Most of the time they&amp;#x27;ll just shrug and say &amp;quot;works on our setup&amp;quot; and refuse to help. We&amp;#x27;ll spend hundreds of man-hours debugging their crap until we find the issue in their kernel driver and then they won&amp;#x27;t even acknowledge it was a problem and will say &amp;quot;qmi_wwan is an open source driver. We do not support it.&amp;quot; Right, so you expect &lt;i&gt;everyone else&lt;/i&gt; to maintain and fix the bugs in qmi_wwan even though virtually ALL of your customers use it and you yourselves rely on it as a critical piece of your development platform. Good one, Qualcomm.</text></item><item><author>totalZero</author><text>This is the right ruling. These guys are the biggest IP bullies out there in tech. Their entire business model depends on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>Do you ever point out some terrible design decision and they reply “working as designed” and then do nothing?</text></comment>