[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011

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In article <j3h0j2$hao$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>On 2011-08-29 12.57, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> John Wallace schrieb:
>>
>>> Presumably you're not aware, or have forgotten, that two people who
>>> had that notion, indeed perhaps started spreading it around, were
>>> Intel's Chief Executive, Andy Grove, and Chief Operating Officer,
>>> Craig Barrett, interviewed in the Wall Street Journal in 1996 (August
>>> 26th)?
>>
>> well, WSJ is not my usual reading ...
>>
>>> E.g.
>>>
>>> "the world's biggest chip maker copied and improved upon approaches
>>> already laid out by minicomputer, mainframe and supercomputer
>>> designers. But Intel has decided that won't cut it anymore.
>>>
>>> "Now we're at the head of the class, and there's nothing left to
>>> copy," said Craig Barrett, chief operating officer of the Santa Clara,
>>> Calif., company. Adds Chief Executive Andrew S. Grove: "We're a big
>>> banana now. . . . We can't rely on others to do our research and
>>> development for us."
>>
>> so what, if it's knowledge in the public domain,
>> everybody can copy it, nothing wrong with that.
>> If it's patented, feel free to file a lawsuit,
>> but then evidence has to be strong enough.
>> In that DEC vs intel case it obviously wasn't,
>> or DEC didn't view Alpha as a strategic asset
>> anymore, which were my original points.
>
>Most lawsuits never come to a court decision. Not because the suing part 
>have a weak case, but because they are offered enough to stop the court 
>proceedings before it comes to a decision.
>
>You must know this, right?

Litigation is nothign more that legally sanctioned blackmail, coupled with a
court sanctioned mental, physical and financial abuse of the defendant.  The
litigtion is allowed to proceed until the plaintiff has financially, emotion-
ally and physicaly exhausted the defendant.  Then, the court allows a settle-
ment to be drafted by the plaintiff with excessive one-sidedness to the det-
riment of the defendant and, of course, more money.

Is it any wonder the legal profession is looked upon with such vile disdain?
I, personally, would rather spend the evening with all the namesakes of the
VMS Deathrow cluster than with an attorney!

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