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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: nintendo
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.112730.27021@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 11:27:30 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

>. did you also know that one of the guys working on the ASIC chip belonged
>. to the RocketChip project. personally, i'll never buy another Zip product
>. (not that i ever bought one) just because of their lawsuit over Rocket.
>. sure, Rocket probably stole the technology. but if someone from Zip came
>. to work at Rocket, then what is he suppose to do with what he learned.
>. boycott Zip.

Albert, I serious feel like slapping you. The guy in question was hired
as a contractor by Zip, and he was working with Zip's PATENTED caching
technology. His decision to do the RocketChip and attempts to sell it
to AE (wonder what happened to the Transwrap II, eh?) were in blatant
violation of Zip's patent and the guy declared bankruptcy to escape having
to pay damages to Zip. As of yet Zip has not been able to collect any real
damages from the whole affair.

If anybody, the ASIC 65816 should be boycotted, but I won't because
I want one too much. The tech dude at Zip I visited (Steve Meadows)
said they have nothing against the chip itself, but they really wish
it wasn't being co-developed by that jerk (I can never remember his
name, he's the one besides Tony Fadell).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

P.S. Next time check your facts before you announce a boycott, Albert.