Messages in this thread | | | From | "Aaron Tiensivu" <> | Subject | Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.] | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:04:56 -0500 |
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| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion racket. Generally the license fee demanded is low enough | that is more cost effective, in the short term, to pay. And with | shareholder lawsuits the way they are, short term thinking | is the only thinking shareholders accept, and the extortionists | know it.
Those of them that didn't end up in jail went on to form RAMBUS in the 90s.
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