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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Prophet who wrote (46963)	7/11/2000 2:29:47 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

>RMBS is a meanie; RMBS is a meanie. 2% is expensive. Bad RMBS. Bad, bad RMBS. Rambus is like a company who slipped in a patent application for "the wheel" and due to an overworked, underpaid patent office employee, the patent was granted. Now they're knocking on the doors of Goodyear, General Motors, and everyone else who is actually doing anything constructive. Rambus is a leech on the industry. Nothing more, nothing less. They contribute nothing. Rambus didn't develop any of the technologies it is trying to blackmail the real producers with. It just sent a few guys to take notes at a semiconductor conference, had them file those notes with the patent office after signing an agreement that they wouldn't try to patent things discussed at that conference, and is now trying to extract extortion. They will fail eventually.

To: The Prophet who wrote (46963)	7/11/2000 2:56:34 AM
From: Brian1970	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

What kind of pinko rhetoric is that? 2% royalties are too high, so Rambus is mean. Are you the all-knowing sage who alone may determine correct market pricing? RMBS had vision and foresight, and set themselves up for an enormous profit down the road. Now that they are finally getting down that road, you would tell them that they are mean -- why, because they don't just sit back and let everyone ride over them? To paraphrase a dead president, some look at the world as it as and ask, "Why?" Rambus looked at the world that wasn't and asked, "Why not?"