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Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC

Posted by kdawson on from the severely-undermine-and-jeopardize dept.

afabbro writes "The US Supreme Court rejected the FTC's bid to impose anti-trust penalties on Rambus. Without comment, they let stand an appeals court decision favoring Rambus. The FTC had found that Rambus undermined competition by getting secretly patented technology included in industry standards, but the Supremes evidently didn't agree."

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  1. I love patents by flyingrobots · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've seen a couple of posts that bemoan that RAMBUS has won this suit. Have you seen their memory technologies? I've done DDR and DDR2 memory implementations and their technology is far superior to any 'standard'.
    I'm all for helping folks understand how to implement technology. But I wonder sometimes if standardization doesn't actually rob innovation as it seems to require that innovators give up that which is of value to them. There is no incentive in that. Proprietary technology can be far superior to non-proprietary work. I agree that it isn't always true, but for the most part, it is.
    You can't make a buck giving stuff away. I'm really don't like the open source model. It waters down our field and sets expectations such that business types don't appreciate the hard work it takes to make good software, they begin to expect software work to be free.
    As far as I'm concerned...Go RAMBUS!
    *ducks* :)
    Kevin