totally agree! actually companies should be FORCED to license their IP to others and the fees should be controlled by an industry body to make sure innovation isnt slowed down and nobody can bully anybody with their market share or money. as soon as ip is not available to everybody innovation slows down and political and mafia like relationships emerge, which in the end bend over the end user...Originally Posted by Donnie27
we came up with the idea to use 775 mounting holes on 1366, asus copied it, we hold a patent on it, but... whats the point? innovation drives the market and suing each other for using and not using each others ip is ridiculous and only gets you down in dirty mudfights hurting everybody, especially the customers cause in the end its THEM who pay for all this legal bs the big companies are pulling off. shamino came up with an external panel to access the clockgen and voltages while the board was running, without using the boards resources... again asus copied it, and foxconn could sue them, but again whats the point?
i just dont see how intel is beeing treated bad here, since atm its perfectly normal to use the pc infrastucture without having to pay any licenses and its not sneaky or greedy from nvidia to do this. IF they would have paid Intel to have sli on x58, then it would be intel abusing their market position, forcing nvidia to pay or else they get kicked out. which they are now trying to do with the chipset business. THATS wrong. intel is the one screwing nvidia and the market here by not wanting anybody else building chipsets! just let nvidia build their chipsets and license them and make extra money on it, whats the big deal?
i totally agree that actually there should be a constant flow of licensing between all parties that share a platform, but right now thats not the case, and as such nvidia is doing what everybody else is doing and its not wrong...
my 2cents...
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