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To: richard surckla who wrote (51885)	8/29/2000 9:25:05 PM
From: The Prophet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Richard: I hate to put you on the ignore list, since I know you mean well and you occasionally post helpful information. However, your ratio of useless/useful information has increased significantly as of late. I will try this one more time. Nothing in the article you quoted refers to "excessive" royalty rates; the article mentions "extra royalties," which is a reference to the fact that all of these DRAM makers already have licenses to use RMBS patents in RDRAM, but do not have licenses, nor do they pay royalties, for use of RMBS patents in SDRAM and DDR. Hence, the term "extra" royalties. That's it. I've done my duty. I'll let Bilow duke it out with you henceforth. Prophet

To: richard surckla who wrote (51885)	8/29/2000 10:46:28 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim, Re: the article you posted to The Prophet. Another interpretation of the paragraph you highlighted (see below)... The suit revolves around Rambus Inc.'s efforts to collect extra royalties from DRAM makers for patents on SDRAMs, double data rate (DDR) memories, and controllers interfacing to those chips. ...might be that "extra" doesn't mean "excessive" royalties on SDRAM/DDR, but "any" royalties for SDRAM/DDR (that is, that Rambus is trying to collect royalties on more than just RDRAM). Just a thought. Dave