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That doesn't make any sense. As far as I know, Rambus was only required to *disclose* their patents, not required to make them available to the other manufacturers without a license. Thus, from what I can tell, JEDEC moved forward thinking all of the technology they were implementing was free, but in fact Rambus held patents on those technologies. Rambus almost certainly did its best to push those technologies into SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. I think JEDEC would have balked if Rambus had showed their patents.

I wasn't very clear, but that's not important.

The entire goal from the start was to get Rambus IP. When they weren't convinced to make their IP an open standard, the companies turned to illegal means to get the IP. Forcing Rambus to disclose pending patents was one way to steal their IP. Rambus actually followed the rules that JEDEC set out for them while some of the other companies did not. Once Rambus realized what was going on, they dropped out of JEDEC.

Rambus lied, cheated, and stole. They lied by not disclosing patents. They cheated by later claiming those patents were valid. They stole by attempting to collect royalties (sometimes successfully) for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. Rambus has used many underhanded tactics in order to gain a monopoly in the memory industry.

The court documents are on the internet. Go ahead and look at the case yourself. I think you'll find the opposite of what you posted above.

Regardless of how "evil" you may think the other memory manufacturers are, they still agreed to come together and generate one free and open standard. That is definitely a very good thing. Rambus has spit in the face of that standard.

The only purpose of JEDEC is to form a standard. It is not necessarily free. If JEDEC adopts Kentrons IP and forms it into a standard will they have to pay Kentron royalties? Definitely.

Everything is based on money, not good or evil. If the memory companies can break the law without losing too much money, they will.

In reality, do you think that a company like Rambus could have gotten away with what you are proposing? No, they would have been squashed years ago. Instead, we see seven of the top ten memory makers paying royalties to Rambus. The fact that Rambus is still around is good evidence in favor of Rambus.