[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]RAMBUS FTW!!!Unlike the dweebs here, I love this company. I've made more money on their stock than any other company.Of course, they sue people. But, most of the Microsoft dorks here forget that Microsoft not only has done a lot of suing, but they also practiced illegal actions that destroyed other products based purely on their market position.Apple? Are you kidding me? They love litigation. Samsung? Oh no, they've never sued anyone. Nope. Never. It's how the business world is. The bigger question is if the company has produced good products. Most of the people here are ignorant to the fact that RAMBUS has, time and time again. Maybe not something as obvious as the iPad or iPhone, that revolutionized those industries, but nonetheless less important products that have made a positive impact.They're not perfect, and some of their lawsuits were pure BS. Like Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, IBM, Oracle, HP, etc...[/citation]
Rambus has spent much of the lest decade literally living mostly off of BS patents. Maybe other than Apple, none of the other companies did that. Furthermore, no one here was praising MS over Rambus, so I have no idea why you're mocking people for that nor why you even brought them up. You can attack other companies in defense of Rambus, but the others are irrelevant here. Rambus has pretty much been a vampire on the industry. Sure, other companies have done bad things too, but even Apple has done stuff such as kick-start the smart phone market into high gear. Rambus has no such call to fame. Almost all of Rambus's actually good products were never well-utilized. For example, RDRAM was hardly good, it made a huge trade-off between bandwidth and latency and ran ridiculously hot), yet it was one of the few technologies that Rambus really got around and even then, it was ridiculously overpriced.
They have a few excellent technologies (at least for the time) such as RDRAM's successors, XDR and XDR2, but other than the PS3, XDR has not seen much use and I'm not aware of XDR2 having significant use anywhere. Another great product based on them, mobile XDR, would be the best mobile memory even today despite its relative age, yet, again, it is not used. Rambus tried to screw over its customers (both businesses and consumers) to the point where they're more or less ignored by most of the technology industry.
Even for RDRAM, it was almost immediately discarded by DDR once DDR was available. DDR and DDR2 were competitive in bandwidth while having incredibly lower latency and they weren't priced like they were made of solid 24K gold. Rambus took advantage of everyone with lawsuits when businesses and consumers decided that they didn't want to pay ridiculous prices for Rambus's own memory.
There is a very obvious line between imperfection and extreme greed or whatever else BS motivated them to act how they did. There is also a difference between suing others for no good reason and suing others in defense and/or other legitimate reasons (Samsung, for example, hardly dealt with litigation until Apple went crazy over not being top dog anymore, which is kinda funny since that was just as much Apple's fault for not continuing to improve properly to begin with).
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