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To: Ali Chen who wrote (66616)	2/26/2001 4:13:28 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 93625

Ali: My problem with all this is that Mr. Crisp is, I believe, an engineer. He is not a lawyer nor a member of senior management of Rambus. Although he is an appropriate representative at the JEDEC meetings due to his professional background. Most well-run companies make it totally clear to all employees at whatever level they may be that they have authority to speak on issue A, issue B, but not issue C. Certainly no engineer, even a senior manager, would be given authority to speak on patent inclusion or exclusion...just not an authority ever to be given to someone. He may not know the full extent of the patents and, in any event, his opinion is not relevant. He would have been instructed to not comment on the issue, or to carry the question back to the legal department. His "off the record" hallway comments are far more telling to me (dumb as they may have been) than his on the record failure to bring up the issues. I still don't see anything which convinces me Rambus did not act as any smart company would do in a similar setting, including dropping out when it became obvious that their very lifeblood was at risk by agreeing to JEDEC demands. JMHO