Saw this on slashdot, its a post from someoe about the suit Rambus has against AMD and Transmeta
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/30/212246.shtml
<< It's worse than that. A lot of this technology was first developed by a JEDEC working group (of which Rambus was a member) in the late 80's and early 90's. Part of the membership contract stated that members would not attempt to patent or otherwise seek protection for technology that the group developed.
Rambus, being the highly ethical people that they are, quietly filed for patents on the technology as it was developed; when this was discovered, they resigned from the working group. However, they still pursued (and were eventually granted) the patents.
It's just one of many signs of how diseased things have gotten that a company can get patents in direct violation of contracts they signed, patent technology that in some cases had already existed for at least a decade, and all the 'authorities' involved basically say "that's okay, if they're clever enough to get them they can keep them and use them to rape everyone they touch; it's just good business".
I've also seen people who say that even though it's very plain that most of their patents are bad, they should be allowed to keep them because their investors would lose money otherwise. How's that for reasoning? My take is that they deserve to lose their money for investing in a company run by a bunch of crooks.
Oh, and since Rambus obviously has an overactive legal department, all of the above is my opinion; it should not be construed as fact without independent verification (do a few searches around the 'net; it shouldn't be hard to find
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This should turn ANY Rambus supporter against them.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/30/212246.shtml
<< It's worse than that. A lot of this technology was first developed by a JEDEC working group (of which Rambus was a member) in the late 80's and early 90's. Part of the membership contract stated that members would not attempt to patent or otherwise seek protection for technology that the group developed.
Rambus, being the highly ethical people that they are, quietly filed for patents on the technology as it was developed; when this was discovered, they resigned from the working group. However, they still pursued (and were eventually granted) the patents.
It's just one of many signs of how diseased things have gotten that a company can get patents in direct violation of contracts they signed, patent technology that in some cases had already existed for at least a decade, and all the 'authorities' involved basically say "that's okay, if they're clever enough to get them they can keep them and use them to rape everyone they touch; it's just good business".
I've also seen people who say that even though it's very plain that most of their patents are bad, they should be allowed to keep them because their investors would lose money otherwise. How's that for reasoning? My take is that they deserve to lose their money for investing in a company run by a bunch of crooks.
Oh, and since Rambus obviously has an overactive legal department, all of the above is my opinion; it should not be construed as fact without independent verification (do a few searches around the 'net; it shouldn't be hard to find
. >>This should turn ANY Rambus supporter against them.
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