Re:Tortured logic ????? (Score 1)

Rambus did not seed any JEDEC process with their technology...where do you people get your facts from ??? Rambus shared their technology (and in some cases their entire patent application) with the industry before joining JEDEC... Once in JEDEC they saw their technology and their patents being openly discussed, and dismissed as a collection of prior art on which patents would never be issued... Rambus never voted to adopt any technology while a member of JEDEC... Rambus was the only member of JEDEC in the history of the organization to ever be denied the right to present their technology for standardization...this happened twice... The point you seem to be missing is that the management of JEDEC was openly trying to subvert Rambus within the organization... The person who denied Rambus request to present RDRAM for standardization had only two weeks prior written in an IBM internal memo that if Rambus isn't standardized, it's business as usual for IBM... This person supposedly denied Rambus request because there was a rule change at the very meeting, and just before, Rambus made the request...but there is no record of any rule change in the meeting minutes and this person had previously given sworn testimony that no rules ever changed... How about the JEDEC counsel testifying that when he said or wrote the word Patents, he really meant Patents, Patent Applications and Intentions to file patents...BTW, did you know that while Rambus was a member only 5 patent applications were ever disclosed within jedec, and this being done only by either presenters of technolgoy for standardization or by other than the inventor and JEDEC included companies such as IBM and HP and Micron and Siemens...wonder how many patents they applied for during that time period that were not disclosed ??? How about another JEDEC manager who was listed as an inventor on a patent, that he never disclosed to the membership until it was adopted as a standard, and then after it was adopted assurred the membership that it would be "Royalty Free"...and later testified that "Royalty Free" did not mean Free ??? How about the Micron engineer who admitted at the FTC trial that he head technology discussions at JEDEC, went back to work and patented the technology without disclosing this to JEDEC and a year after the patent issued, finally told the membership that anyone could use the technolgy, but Micron later sued another member over the tech ??? This could go on and on...but trust me...it's not like you thought !!! Read the FTC document and learn... http://www.ftc.gov/os/adjpro/d9302/040223initialde cision.pdf