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To: Scumbria who wrote (44942)	6/18/2000 11:15:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Let me tell you a little story, it has to with the planting of the seed that would later grow into the investor I am now. I believe I was 7th or 6th grade. I was just starting to understanding how compounded interest worked in my rather small pass book account at the time. I was sitting down with my dad, he said to me as I was using a spray can to paint a model I was working on, "You know Greg the guy who invented that little spray nozzle on the spray can gets a penny for each one of those." I said, "but it so simple looking " He said back, "Yes that is true but sometimes the simplest things in live are the most elegant." The he went on to say, "Now multiply that penny by millions of spray cans that are sold." It was light bulb moment for me. (It father's day, I can help it.) <vbg> You keep using the word trivial, that's how you see it, but in reality what RMBS has could very will be the most elegant, I'm sure Toshiba saw it that way. Greg

To: Scumbria who wrote (44942)	6/19/2000 8:04:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, I don't think there is a way to engineer around this patent. ... 1% seems way out of line for what seems to me a rather trivial piece of fairly obvious IP. You don't see the conflict in your statements? If it can't be engineered around, I'd think it could hardly be called trivial. It would seem to me to be a tremendous breakthrough on Rambus's part if they were the first to come up with the only way that exists to solve this problem. OTOH, if it's a trivial problem to solve, then there are probably 50 or 100 other ways to solve it. Get cracking. I'll bet you could license it for .5% and the DRAM companies would come running! Dave