[H-GEN] Sad day for Linux

[Robert Brockway]

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On Wed, 28 May 2003, David Jericho wrote:

> Rambus had done work on it, had patents in process, and did not
> declare any of these in patents to the JEDEC panel, of which they were
> members of.

But patents and patents-pending aren't secret.  They are infact public
knowledge by definition.  It's certainly arguable that some
underhandedness went on but if JEDEC were too slack to do a patent search
that is their problem :)

Cheers,
	Rob

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