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

To: Scumbria who wrote (52459)	9/4/2000 2:36:26 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Your hyperbole is sounding like Carl's now... Rambus developed a product which is losing out in the marketplace. They are trying to make up their lost potential earnings by extracting even higher royalties from the winning product. The winning product? DDR? Fine, I'd like to go buy a DDR-based PC. Can you point me to one? Since they're "winning", I must be able to find them anywhere by now. Certainly EBN and EET has said they'd be available since about 1998. So where should I go? CompUSA? Fry's? Winning? Give me a break! Dave

To: Scumbria who wrote (52459)	9/4/2000 2:54:31 AM
From: add	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, MU is using RMBS's property in DDR. RMBS can charge whatever the hell they like. If they don't like the price they don't have to produce it. That simple. MU can go back and make EDO or they can produce an even better RAM if they are capable. Whatever the technical merits of DDR or RDRAM, it doesn't matter now. This is ALL about PROPERTY RIGHTS. If you think MU is right on this, then you won't mind me taking your salary every month. I'll just have it deposited in my account. Since you don't care for the value of intellectual work (and I'm guessing you work w/ your mind mostly), then I'm sure you won't mind me garnishing your wages either. Its obvious that MU knows they don't have the property rights to produce DDR or even SDRAM. They are now trying to steal it by claiming that RMBS gave it away by joining JEDEC and if not that,then RMBS is charging too much for it. Whine... Whine.... Whine.. Hey, well I'd like to pay $10 for my 128 meg too. So what? Hey, doesn't it say in the Constitution that I have the rights to pursue my happiness. Think I can get a lawyer to force MU to charge only $10 for 128 Meg? Sure would make me happy. Get real... Personally I think MU is a thief. They stole Intel's $500M and now they are trying to steal RMBS's IP. I do hope MU gets put of biz. Justice would be served. If that were to happen, I'd offer the CEO of MU a job cleaning my house, but I'd be afraid he'd steal my few humble belongings. What a crook! I bet he and Tricky Dick were good friends... "I'm not a crook, I've earned everything I own."

To: Scumbria who wrote (52459)	9/4/2000 7:33:13 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Rambus developed a product which is losing out in the marketplace. They are trying to make up their lost potential earnings by extracting even higher royalties from the winning product. Well, see, now I'd have to guess that there's some confusion on your part because you said you were talking about SDRAM when I asked what you meant by "winning" product, but when you talk about "even higher royalties", you're talking about DDR (since they announced with the settlements that the SDRAM royalties were lower than RDRAM while the DDR royalties were higher than RDRAM). But, of course, then we get back to that "no DDR systems are shipping so how can you make a statement like it's 'winning'?" issue, again. Dave