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.

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Re:SCO of the chip world

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Nope. That company, today, is called Tarantella. The company called SCO today used to be called Caldera. They owned SCO for a few years at a time when SCO's core Unix business was failing, and had the SCO part of the business concentrate on their Tarantella administration suite. SCO was then spun off, renamed to Tarantella, with only the Unix IP "assets" and the SCO name kept by Caldera.

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.