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Government Brings Antitrust Actions Against Rambus, Micron
A Happy Plague writes "I work at a hedge fund and one of the nice ammenities are real time news tickers. At 11:34 EDT, a nice red line scrolled on my screen.."FTC Alleges Rambus Violates Antitrust Laws". The headlines followed..."...Anticompetitive Acts... Deceived standard setting organization...never acknowledged patents... deceptive conduct..."
Too bad it takes a long time fo bureacracies to work, but they usually come around. Yahoo News has the story." Of course all rambus has to do now is buy a president to get out from under this. In related news, Tricot writes "Over at Salon, there is a newswire article claiming that the justice department is investigating memory chip maker Micron for anti-competitive practices. Wow, if it's a monopoly, then it certainly hasn't hurt prices."
Its about time....
Surprising to see all the H/W geeks praising RMBS. Rather Sad.
Curmudgeon
Holy fucking shit! Who's next... Apple? Oh god I hope so...
Hippy. I love these thoughtless leaps to conclusions. You don't have the slightest fucking _clue_ what went on with the DOJ/Microsoft case, how strong their case was, what was likely to happen after the sentencing, etc... You're not a lawyer, you're not even remotely intelligent.
You just make some asinine assumption that MS bought it, because they finally started playing the game by investing in politicians who aren't money-grubbing socialist scum. How the hell do you think MS's competitors got the DOJ involved in the first place?!
You dirty stinky nerds really piss me off. 75% of you cling to libertarian ideals, then you want the government to help carry out your pathetic overly-intense hate of Microsoft and their products.
P.S. - you forgot to append "IANAL/IAADN" (I am not a lawyer, I am a dirty nerd.)