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Court Decision Favors Rambus
RoscoeP writes "This story from News.com: "A federal judge has overturned two counts of fraud against chip designer Rambus...". At least Rambus can't pursue litigation against Infineon for SDRAM though." See our previous stories about Rambus for far-too-much background.
Geoff Tate would leap from the bushes, run down the street and fax the design to the US patent office, then sue unless he was paid a stipend.
Lucent would attempt to make the cans and string and lose a large fortune, requiring massive layoffs at their lemonade stand.
Steve Case would be adamant that the string have a huge granny knot in it to be more effective
Bill Gates would say it has to be 4 inch braided nylon rope with a detour through his house
Larry Ellison would hold his breath and turn purple unless the cans were imported from Japan
Thomas Penfield Jackson would call Gates a big stupid jerk and get dragged home by his mother and grounded for a week
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
512 MB 800 mhz Rambus RDRAM - $380
256 MB PC133 Micron SDRAM - $25
512 MB PC133 Micron SDRAM - $77
Remind me why I need this stuff? If you want to see the future of RAMBUS, reference "microchannel" expansion slots. It seems you can only strongarm an entire marketplace if you make software....
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
But even if they're not criminally liable, the amount of bad publicity they've recieved in the last little while can't be anything but bad for busines. What with the fraud cases themselves as well as Intel dropping support, added to the cost difference between Rambus and SDRAM, they've distanced themselves from the majority of the geek community, something that other notable companies can afford to do, but they can't. When SDRAM is less than CDN$35 for 128mb, It's just impossible to sell on truse alone when you have no more trust.
Now it's just sit back and wait for more bad news for Rambus.
- Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!