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Rambus Patent Claims Dismissed
Gogo Dodo writes "The patent infringement claim by Rambus, the SCO of the chip world, against Infineon have been dismissed by a judge in Virginia due to Rambus destroying documents relating to the lawsuit." Of course, Rambus is already planning an appeal, so this may not be over just yet.
...or you could use proper grammar and say "Chips ahoy!"
I'm not sure what this obsession with apostrophes is all about, but it seems to be a common love..
I mean, wouldn't the knowledge they shredded documents be about the worst thing possible for them in a countersuit?
Not if the documents contained more incriminating evidence. It's certainly a indicator of duplicity but you can't convict someone based on the hearsay of "I think this is what was in those documents."
Destroyed documents? Ha! Enron was making freaking snow with its documents, I didn't see any charges against them.
I've bought them from http://memorysuppliers.com in the past. They're available. They work. You might not like the price when compared to more mainstream products, but those are the breaks.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Judging from all the links on slashdot to groklaw I just assumed that groklaw is the legal section. Groklaw usually has the legal stories first with better commentary from a person who has a pretty good idea of the law. (Not that that ever mattered on slashdot...)
Caldera was previously best known for buying Novell/Digital Research's anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft for the numerous abuses Microsoft made against DRDOS. Once Caldera won that one, they spun off what was left of the DRDOS development team in the form of Lineo.
It's fair to say they are, for the most part, an IP litigation company. They've had some good people (good in the sense of not evil) people running them for the times they've been Caldera + Some Company With Something Real For Sale, but they keep returning to a theme, spinning off the companies that do the real work and keeping the lawsuit material.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
No offense, but you, sir, are a moron.
I am a proud owner of an Asus P4T-E (with an i850 chipset), w/ 1gb of PC800 RDRAM memory. I specifically chose RDRAM when I built the machine back in 2001, because the only other choice at the time was DDR-200/266 w/ the original i845 chipset, or PC133 w/ the same chipset. (if you recall, performance of the original i845 was less than spectactular)
All of my friends questioned my choice of RDRAM when building my system, saying I wouldn't be able to overclock (which i was, easily, P4 1.6a @ 2.3ghz w.o. any fantastic cooling solutions) and that I wouldn't be able to use that same memory when I upgraded (I haven't upgraded yet, but many of them have, and guess what? They purchased new 'go faster' DDR sticks when they bought their new board/cpu...)
As for your buddy being stuck w/ 128mb of RDRAM because of no local availability... Have you heard of this website called 'eBay'?? I hear it's quite nifty.
Oh, by the way... Dell still sells RDRAM