This is just another lame attempt by Rambus to control the memory market as they tried to do a couple of years ago. They've realized nobody is going to buy their over-priced memory that has no significant performance increase over much cheaper SDRAM and that since the memory industry is developing an alternative, DDR SDRAM, the high-speed memory market may become constrained for them.
I really don't see why anyone would have any sympathy towards AOL. These are the people who put advertisements in their properitary software that people pay $21.95 a month to use, a high price to pay for slow, unreliable 56k access. AOL just wants to bomard the world with advertisements in any way they can and their customers don't seem to care that they're paying to see advertisements. The worse is yet to come because the FCC seems to have given the green light for the AOL-Time Warner merger. It's going to be a AOL world as far as information goes.
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This is just another lame attempt by Rambus to control the memory market as they tried to do a couple of years ago. They've realized nobody is going to buy their over-priced memory that has no significant performance increase over much cheaper SDRAM and that since the memory industry is developing an alternative, DDR SDRAM, the high-speed memory market may become constrained for them.
I really don't see why anyone would have any sympathy towards AOL. These are the people who put advertisements in their properitary software that people pay $21.95 a month to use, a high price to pay for slow, unreliable 56k access. AOL just wants to bomard the world with advertisements in any way they can and their customers don't seem to care that they're paying to see advertisements. The worse is yet to come because the FCC seems to have given the green light for the AOL-Time Warner merger. It's going to be a AOL world as far as information goes.