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Micron sues Rambus for antitrust violations
darkrot writes "According to the Micron website, Micron is suing Rambus for violations of antitrust laws, as well as asserting its non-infringement and the invalidity of Rambus' patents." So far Hitachi and Toshiba have settled with Rambus. Toshiba still makes RAMs, so its settlement with Rambus was odd in that it could only spur on Rambus to sue more people. This suit might reduce the attraction of business models based on generating patents and suing, rather than bringing products to market. Update: 08/29 07:03 PM by S :Oops: "settled with Rambus" not Micron.
Segfault sues Slashdot posters over fake lawsuit posts
DISASSOCIATED PRESS - Dozens were shocked today as popular geek humor site Segfault sued numerous posters to popular geek new site Slashdot over posts which they claim "directly infringe upon our content".
"Segfault has long since been the home for parodies of lawsuits. Why, even recently we had to politely hint that we've been recieving too many!" commented resident Segfault PR hack Bymer Klairich, "As such, if others create their own lawsuit parodies, this will severely damage our ability to ship our own version of the product. Effective immediately, we're going to shut those freeloaders down!"
Aside from "firewalling ports", "using block lists", and various other technical-sounding terms of various feasability, Segfault plans to begin enforcing its patent on fake lawsuits.
"Patent INT_MAX - 4, 'Method for cheap laughter involving legal parody of the USPTO' is clearly in violation here. As soon as we end the current fake lawsuit we're facing over it, we plan to prosecute these posters to the fullest extent of the law."
-Denor
The "problem" is that Rambust owns patents on SDRAM. They were part of the JEDEC committee, while at the same time patenting the core technologies being finalized. If this isn't conflict of interest, I don't know how else to define it. The biggest problem with Rambust is not that it is expensive, but that it doesn't work well. The technology is immature and flaky. Don't even think about mixing vendors on the same board. Also, it is not only the PC-800 that has problems. It is not like SDRAM, whereby faster chips run better in slower systems. There are problems across the board. It's just that Rambus isn't so popular that these problems have not come out. If you buy a Rambus-based system, buy one from a first tier vendor, or you'll be sorry.
I don't know if these two corporate names sound funny to you, but hearing Micron vs. Rambus sounds alot like Godzilla vs. Mothra.
For example, "Rambus was resting deep beneath the ocean, the warm salty waters healing it after its fight with Mothra. Soon, though, the citizens of Tokyo would be rushing frantic through the streets. Why? Unbenownst to them, an evil Sony game developer, trying to learn the secret of MS's new Xbox gamestation, opened the case of a development version of the Xbox, stolen from Redmond.
Sadly, the Gatesians had rigged all development copies of the Xbox with a failsafe device, that would irradiate every chip inside the box as well as anything within a 20 foot radius.
Within that 20 foot radius was the developer and a small fly that flew onto the Xbox's main CPU when the radiation hit. Thus born of the radiation was "Micron", a 50 foot fly with the brains of a Pentium III.
And as monsters are wont, Micron began destroying and gobling up small software and hardware companies throughout Tokyo, eventually awakening Rambus from its sleep to emerge from the ocean deeps to fight Micron in the streets of Tokyo."
No more caffiene for me today. Thanks.
EMUSE.NET
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I was seriously dismayed that RAMBUS, seeing that it's technology was losing the battle badly, decided that if they can't win, they are going to try to extort revenues out of all other DRAM manufacturers. I was shocked that Hitachi and Toshiba buckled without much of a fight; numerous corporations have been making SDRAM for years before RAMBUS came on to the scene. I'm putting my money on DDR SDRAM for the next generation RAM technology, as it's cheap and higher performance that the expensive, high-latency, high-clocked serial RAMBUS modules.
"Evil beware: I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hampster!"
Lex orandi, lex credendi.