Jan 16th, 2020: Microsoft announces the acquisition of the last independent company owning gene patents. It is official that everyone is now belong to Microsoft.
On a serious note... there is always that possiblity that a single company acquires an almost complete ownership of the patents. And no anti-trust law prevents registering/owning patents. As genetic solutions to medical problems increasingly becomes The Future humanity itself may find itself threatened by a single company's financial greed.
Cartels and price fixing do hurt all of us, yes, but as someone who has used a LOT of RDRAM (and various other flavours from EDO to DDR2) I'll say this: RDRAM was the most stable, least troublesome, and had the lowest RMA rates. They were simply awesome. In an RDRAM machine if a PC didn't boot the LAST thing you looked at was the RAM. AFAIK, 99% of RDRAM modules in the market were made by Samsung. Perhaps the deal with Intel involved tighter quality control than we see in the anybody-make-a-chip-anybody-else-make-a-pcb-and-ge t-your-six-year-old-to-solder them together type major on third modules in the DDR market. DDR really, really sucked in comparision with a return rate of well over 50X that of RDRAM (and we're talking major on major).
So, price fixing does needs to be punished but I'd still pay a few dollars more for the level of reliability the old RDRAM had and for the amount of time it saved me over the years.
"Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article"
Hmm. It shouldn't fall on them to apologise. Where's the author's integrity? Why didn't he mention his affiliation in the original article?
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They'd use the type of cooling used in datacenters. No biggie.
Jan 16th, 2020: Microsoft announces the acquisition of the last independent company owning gene patents. It is official that everyone is now belong to Microsoft. On a serious note... there is always that possiblity that a single company acquires an almost complete ownership of the patents. And no anti-trust law prevents registering/owning patents. As genetic solutions to medical problems increasingly becomes The Future humanity itself may find itself threatened by a single company's financial greed.
Cartels and price fixing do hurt all of us, yes, but as someone who has used a LOT of RDRAM (and various other flavours from EDO to DDR2) I'll say this: RDRAM was the most stable, least troublesome, and had the lowest RMA rates. They were simply awesome. In an RDRAM machine if a PC didn't boot the LAST thing you looked at was the RAM. AFAIK, 99% of RDRAM modules in the market were made by Samsung. Perhaps the deal with Intel involved tighter quality control than we see in the anybody-make-a-chip-anybody-else-make-a-pcb-and-ge t-your-six-year-old-to-solder them together type major on third modules in the DDR market. DDR really, really sucked in comparision with a return rate of well over 50X that of RDRAM (and we're talking major on major).
So, price fixing does needs to be punished but I'd still pay a few dollars more for the level of reliability the old RDRAM had and for the amount of time it saved me over the years.
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"Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article" Hmm. It shouldn't fall on them to apologise. Where's the author's integrity? Why didn't he mention his affiliation in the original article?
matter and anti-matter? Or immovable object and irresistible force? Or incredible hulk marries T-Rex?