&gt; 1. Qualcomm knows the product and has the engineers. Qualcomm is uniquely positioned to build usable reference implementations, chips, etc, and to charge for this service and for support. This requires no legal protection whatsoever.<p>Why should you or anyone else get to decide on how Qualcomm is monetising the product of their investment?<p>Qualcomm spent millions on developing this, nobody else should be able to decide this.<p>&gt; 4. As you said, the sauce is secret. I think the question of whether Qualcomm should be permitted to keep the sauce secret and how much the law should help or hinder this secrecy is worthy of at lease some debate.<p>It is Qualcomm&#x27;s property, they can keep it secret or open source it however they decide. I deeply reject the idea that government should have the right to order us to share our private property with the public.