Litigious Rambus Wins Again

After Rambus's settlement deal with Samsung earlier this week, an anonymous reader writes with this snippet: "Memory technology company Rambus rounded out the week with another legal dispute ending in its favor as it fights to defend its patent portfolio. On Friday [the] US International Trade Commission ruled that graphics chip maker Nvidia infringed upon Rambus patents, according to statements released by the two companies on Friday. Rambus has been filing lawsuits against various technology companies for the past decade, claiming they violate patents held by the memory chip designer."

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Re:The patent wars of the 21st century

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I can see where you're coming from on the blaming lawyers front, it is very fulfilling, but truth is they are as supply on demand as everything else. Sure, their existance does ensure their continued demand, in that you must hire good lawyers (in the terms of success, not as in good vs evil) to defend against good lawyers, but it's the companies doing this to each other. The lawyers are like expensive weapons, they amplify the damage those using the weapons wish to inflict, and just as in any arms race, where spending more on bigger better weapons helps you defend against others' bigger better weapons, surviving without them when you have a lot to protect and defend lies somewhere between difficult and laughably impossible.

Lawyers don't sue people. People do. Seems silly to blame the weapon for the intent of those holding it. The mistake that you have made here (dumbass;) was in thinking that unlike missiles and bullets, lawyers are people with minds of their own and can choose not to do the things they do, but don't because they lack morals. This is simply not the case. Lawyers aren't people. They're weapons. Just like a child pulled out of an African village to be turned into a weapon and used in a local war, the soul hides away in some darkened corner somewhere and what's left appears only human to the eye, or of course, the dissector's scalpal. The difference being of course, lawyers aren't lawyers through being forced into it, and thus one must conclude the lack of any soul to begin with. Therefore, the moral onus must fall upon those who purchase them for use against other human beings.

You have been enlightened. Enjoy.