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To: Retiarius who wrote (29)	11/25/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Retiarius	Respond to of 40

effect of drexler patent #5,029,125 on erasable market i believe that with drexler's demand for $20 per CD-R drive/ packet writing software combo, to wit: biz.yahoo.com we may see a hastening of the migration to erasables. that is, might an unintended effect here be that the hardware companies disavow any knowledge of CD-R software, while software driver producers toggle off packet writing to CD-R, preserving the function for CD-RW which the patent doesn't address? true, some might pay the fee, and others might sue to overturn, but isn't the writing on the wall (er, disk) to either stick with ISO 9660 for CD-R or go forward to UDF 1.5 on CD-RW or UDF 1.02 on DVD-RAM/RW? note that there are (albeit less onerous) patent hurdles with erasables, where stanford ovshinsky's company ECD (symbol ENER) claims fundamental U.S. & japanese patents for all rewritable technology, but at only 1% or so of cost...