[Amati's Licensing Strategy]
Steve:
<<But they HAVE to make the patents essential to standards compliance available for a reasonable cost. If they don't, and play games, they wind up pissing people off and hurting the market AND themselves. >>
What evidence do you have that Amati is demanding an exorbitant charge for the Standard patents? I contend that we really do not know what the true situation is. The two opposing points of view on this subject are:
A) Pat and others here have stated that the reason that these licensing deals fell through, in particular for USRX, is that the parties could not agree on a deal on what is at stake here. What is at stake is NOT ONLY "the patents essential to standards compliance" but codevelopment and in the case of USRX, purchase and total control of the TI C6X DSP code for implementing the DMT modem. This is something sooooo much larger than simply licensing the Standard DMT patents.
B) You and some others believe that Amati was simply trying to gouge others who are simply trying to license ONLY "the patents essential to standards compliance".
Pat has stated that her source are from the Amati camp. You seemingly categorized her assertion as rumours/hype because it came from the Amati camp. Who are your sources of information? You said that you talked to some industry insiders (post 17752), which companies are these? My guess: PAIR, USRX, or some other companies that decided not to deal with Amati. If that is true, I could also, using your standards, categorized your assertions as rumours/hype, in this case Anti Amati hype. There is nothing out there that convinces me that Amati is any less believeable as a source of info than those other companies.
Bottom line: until we know for sure what exactly are the nitty gritty details of these failed negotiations, we will not really know if Amati is trying to gouge others or not.
Just trying to even things out.
Regards,
Edward |
