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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (81992)	6/26/2000 3:49:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

rmbs is a nasty little company. provides multimillion dollar incentives to use their technology, attend open source meetings and file patents to cover the open source material w/o telling anybody. dirty, dirty, dirty... >>Rambus? failure to disclose its pending patent applications was only the iceberg?s tip of its misconduct in connection with the JEDEC standards-setting process. During JEDEC committee meetings, while Rambus remained silent about its patent applications, and its plan to file additional applications to attempt to cover the proposed standards, other JEDEC members and participants participated in good faith, and shared their technical information so that open industry standards could be developed. 121. Rambus took advantage of the information it learned from the participants at the JEDEC committee meetings, and from the proposed standards then under discussion. Rambus used that information to revise secretly its then-pending but undisclosed patent applications and/or to prepare related additional applications to cover the very technology and potential standards being discussed by other JEDEC participants.<<