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FTC Dismisses Complaint Against Rambus
swordboy writes "A federal judge just threw out the FTC lawsuit against Rambus. This has been discussed at length here before but this changes the landscape yet again. An interesting, possibly coincidental item is that Intel just today announced a new and very powerful DRAM interface that bypasses Rambus IP altogether."
The difference between Rambus and SCO being that Rambus actually holds the patents and has been entirely forthcoming with documentation that shows that they are the true IP owners of the RDRAM designs.
SCO has done little more than huff and puff about their supposed stolen IP in Linux without giving the general public a chance to take a look at it.
Any time you have this discussion on Slashdot, you will hear the same opinion: that IP owners who sue violators are evil 'litigous bastards'. The fact of the matter is that those companies who hold the patents, trademarks, and copyrights should be suing to maximize their investment in obtaining those intellectual properties.
Not much of a joke to me. One of the servers at work recently trashed its boot disk. Running Memtest86 shows memory errors throughout its 4GB of RAMBUS memory.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!