Rambus (RMBS)

[Kent P]

re: Hynix Responds

Thanks TJ and Paul.

Helps some and yet adds more to my confusion. I guess your fog lights work better than mine. I will contemplate some more on this. Still trying to make sense of it.
I guess what I see from all of this is that what Hynix is doing is nothing but a very obvious smoke screen. I thought judges dismissed cases like this for lack of merit.
If I understand this right, Hynix and Rambus were negotiating a license on what SDRAM,DDR, RDRAM? Anyway, if Hynix was negotiating the license, is not that an admission on there part that Rambus patents are valid?
Ok, so Hynix says, 'hey, we no liky your royalty sh$t, we not liky you and we do it out way, no needy you'. Rambus says, pay us now or pay us later.
Hynix then gets in the adrift boat with Micron and Infineon and they somehow cook up this JDA stuff with a plan to take down Rambus. For starters, let's go with the JEDEC thing and get them on fraud, get the FTC in on it and then lets all sue them for various reaons and bleed them dry. Let's each of us take a different angle on it. Keep pounding them until they wilt and go away.
So, Hynix, in order to avoid paying royalties on a perfectly valid patent decides to file an obviously frivolous lawsuit to avoid paying any royalties to Rambus, thinking,, mm not sure
what they are thinking. This is were I get lost and confused.
It bothers me that they take the postion that they (Hynix) are 100% right and Rambus is 100% wrong when in fact it is the other way around. There are parts of this puzzle we are not privy to. Based upon what is known, it does not make any sense for them to proceed.

I have mentioned this before. As I see it, there are 2 main reasons for staying the course with this. Money or principal.
For me it is debatable which one is doing it for what.
You might think that Hynix is staying the course for money and Rambus for principle. Maybe not, maybe Hynix is staying the course for principle and Rambus for the money, After all look at the millions Tate and the others have made off options and Hynix is so far in debt not even the Bank of Korea will bail them out.

I keep asking myself, what is the bottom line behind all of this? I can see the how and what, but not the why.
Which is it for each side, money or principle?
My wife says Rambus is in it for the principle, I say they are in it for the money. Principle seems to bespeak of the champion of good causes, while money is unnecessary greed upon more greed. Good guys do it for principle, bad guys do it for the money.
I see Rambus as the good guys so why are they doing it for the money? If Hynix are the bad guys then why are they doing it for a principle? Sometimes I feel like I am on a merry-go-round with this convuluted logic.
I hope I live long enough to see the end of it.

Sorry got side-tracked a bit.

Oh well regards and thanks to all who stay with the puzzle trying to figure it out before it is all done.

Kent