[citation][nom]Roger Roger[/nom]It is always sad to read these message boards. So much ignorance and so much naive rage. Professors Farmwald and Horowitz INVENTED the technologies that were later ripped off to make DDR and DDR2. They were emobodied in Rambus RDRam, but the memory manufacturers formed an illegal price fixing cartel and artificially boosted the price of RDRam while keeping DDR low. Why do you think Samsung settled with RMBS? They were about to get their heads when the anti trust trial started last year.Oh, by the way, that JEDEC nonsense has been PROVEN in COURT to be a lie. All the memory manufactures knew about rambuses inventions (Rambus had signed NDAs with all of them, so they were well aware of the tech). The cartel stopped RMBS from presenting their tech to JEDEC as a standard and decided to put it into DDR/DDR2 without paying the inventor.Imagine if you had invented the *next big thing* and presented to a large company. Imagine that the company realized it was great and they wanted to avoid paying you? What is the first thing they would do? They would smear your name up and down, seed the press with articles calling you a patent troll, and worse, try to litigate you to death.Most folks don't remember that it was not Rambus that sued first. It was a cordinated effort of Hynix and Micron who both sued in different venues in a system that let them delay as much as possible. It worked. Only now, after eleven years in court are the cases coming to trial.Rambus is a good solid innovative American company. They have over a thousand patents. More PhDs than you can shake a stick at. They deserve to be paid for their inventions just as much as any musician deserves to be paid for their music.[/citation]
I'm not anti-Rambus like most of the people here, as I've made well into six figures on their stock (which is probably the only one I've ever been able to successfully time), but you're full of crap. That's always the case when someone goes all one way or the other, and while most are too anti-RMBS, you are too pro. A lot too much.
RMBS started the lawsuits. They also were working on patents for underlying technology being used for SDRAM while it was being created. Not illegal, but not really cool.
Many of the lawsuits RMBS survived were because of the burden of proof, or the evidence used was from a case that was closed, not because they were clean.
With or without RMBS, SDRAM and DDR would have been made. None of their patents were so pivotal technologies that made these possible. But, once the standards were set, and RMBS started suing companies, they couldn't easily go back and work around them.
There were repeated times that RMBS was shown to have acted in bad faith, most recently when they lost to Micron, where it was described as "clear and convincing".
The truth is in the middle, as is almost always the case. RMBS is not worthless, and RDRAM was pretty good memory for a platform that could use it (P4), and XDR is useful in certain situations as well. But, your claims are just as far fetched. RMBS has been dirty, and underhanded, and not the bastion of invention and decency you're trying to say. If they were, why are their so many rulings on them acting in "bad faith"?
Again, I love the company as they relate to me. I don't think I've ever lost money on their stock (or ever made any money on anyone else's), and I laugh so hard at the disgust they elicit in people. Some is exaggerated, but some is deserved. A lot.
But, at the same time, let's not forget that the memory companies are vile dogs too. RMBS tries to squeeze money from the makers, sure enough, but the makers directly cheated the consumer with price fixing. Let's face it, human nature sucks.
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