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Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better, but read up about what Rambus did to the JEDEC standards body for an example of reall
by huxley 15y ago
Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better, but read up about what Rambus did to the JEDEC standards body for an example of really nasty behaviour.
- ajross 15y agoSo... it's OK for Apple to do this because Rambus was worse? (edit: I don't disagree that Rambus was worse -- they were, and threatened to effectively kill the competetive and vibrant DRAM market with their antics. But Rambus lost, and died. Apple is still around, and behaving badly.)
- iy56 15y agoHuxley said >Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better So why would you read it as a claim that "it's OK for Apple to do this"? He's just pointing out an interesting bit of history.
- untog 15y agoIt's a linguistic thing, I think. Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better, but The 'but' implies "Not disagreeing, but not totally agreeing either". It might have been better to not mention Apple at all: "It's interesting to note that Rambus persued this tactic in an even worse way..."