It's starting to look like Rambus wasn't the scum that its big customers tried to portray, after all. Infineon, et al, and the best lawyers its big bucks can buy, tried to make it seem like Rambus was cheating them, when in fact they'd been shown Rambus' tech under NDA before Rambus was ever in JEDEC.... and then the chip cos. just happen to use it. Looking more and more like the big companies use little companies IP and then hedge their bets in the courts. Rambus didn't cheat. It got out-lawyered. There was a great story on it in the Merc (http:www.sjmercury.com) and in the Chron (www.sfchronicle.com)
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It's starting to look like Rambus wasn't the scum that its big customers tried to portray, after all. Infineon, et al, and the best lawyers its big bucks can buy, tried to make it seem like Rambus was cheating them, when in fact they'd been shown Rambus' tech under NDA before Rambus was ever in JEDEC. ... and then the chip cos. just happen to use it. Looking more and more like the big companies use little companies IP and then hedge their bets in the courts. Rambus didn't cheat. It got out-lawyered. There was a great story on it in the Merc (http:www.sjmercury.com) and in the Chron (www.sfchronicle.com)