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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

RMBS 102.22

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Nov 12 3:59 PM EST

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To: multicollinearity who wrote (44798)	6/17/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) of 93625

Multi, I am an author of college textbooks and was also disturbed by Scumbria's remark. I spend about 5 years working on a text and feel that I am entitled to compensation through the payment of royalties. Is Scumbria implying that this is a dishonest expectation and that all should be allowed to freely copy one's finished product? Rambus did not invent DDR or SDRAM. They have never made an SDRAM or DDR design. They most certainly do not have an SDRAM or DDR "finished product". Rambus does have some broad, simple, obvious, architectural patents which may or may not cover certain aspects of SDRAM and DDR designs. In contrast, the designers and manufacturers of SDRAM products have a huge amount of IP in their products. I have an incredibly hard time believing that the courts (worst case) will accept Rambus' claimed IP as adding more than a small fraction of a percent value to the products on the marketplace. I'm not a lawyer, but from my engineering point of view, the Toshiba deal appears way out of line. Which is why I am suspicious about the circumstances of the deal. Scumbria

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