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To: Steve 667 who wrote (3395)	6/26/1998 8:03:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve, at the risk of repeating myself, there is no way for anyone to accurately answer your questions. Regardless of how authoritarian the tone, Ausdauer and others have offered only pure speculation. What we do know for sure is that "someone" paid royalties to SNDK in the past. I ask anyone to offer PROOF that any or all of the following are untrue: 1) SNDK's royalty agreements provide for 5% in 1996, 2% in 1997, 1% in 1998 and nothing thereafter. 2) The majority of all SNDK licenses are royalty-free technology exchanges. 3) The vast majority of the chips used to make third-party CF cards come from unlicensed sources. 4) SNDK's licensees recently developed a lawful means to circumvent having to pay royalties on CF. 5) SNDK guaranteed that its licensees would sell a minimum number of chips and now it owes refunds (explaining why substantial royalty revenue was "deferred".) 6) The universe was created on a Tuesday. I'm not saying that any of the above statements are true. But only time will tell if they are less accurate than anything I have read here concerning SNDK royalties. Craig