Strategy. Intel and AMD have deep pockets and a high motivation to fight it
out, since a loss will cripple their hardware business with no way to work
around it. Rackspace has deep pockets, but little motivation to fight since it
won't affect their business much beyond paying up. And, not being in the FPU
hardware business, they wouldn't have instant access to the technical staff and
technical history that could easily defeat the patent.
Frankly we need
rulings in patent law that the patent-holder is required to go after the
original infringer first. If they sue Rackspace over something happening in
Intel CPU hardware, Rackspace should be able to get an immediate dismissal on
the grounds that Intel, not Rackspace, is responsible for the infringing item.
Only after winning against Intel could Uniloc go after users of Intel CPUs. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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