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To: richard surckla who wrote (66588)	2/26/2001 2:29:24 PM
From: ekid	Respond to of 93625

From the fool: From page 128 <Microns says the policy exists due to antitrust concerns. that if a group of companies wanted to keep out competition they could agree amongst themselves to standardize somthing that is patented and not licence those they do not want to compete with> Rambus was not involved in deciding the standard. Rambus is not trying to keep out anyone, they offered to license everybody. How Micron is trying to get out using Jedec/antitrust defense is beyond my comprehension. <Micron says TI is descriminatory in their licensing practice by demanding money from some companies and simply cross licensing other companies. As a result, Walther says, that TI is demending unreasonable royalties greater than micron's profit margin that illegally prevents Micron from participating as a supplier for certain devices> Again, Rambus is not trying to keep out anyone, they offered to license everybody, with reasonably similar royalties. No disadvantage for micron since all MM will be paying Rambus. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me Micron (and IFX and Huyndai) are in a very unconfortable position.