Re: allowable questions (was Re www...)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2001 22:17:02 EDT, John Day said:
> I do not know about other countries, but I do know that the US 
> government has taken action against companies for announcing products 
> and then deciding later to not offer those products.  Hence, most 
> people do not talk about possible future product offerings until they 
> are duly approved and ready to be offered to customers.

However, I suspect that RamBus is about to find out that failing to
disclose pending patents may be a bad idea:

http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010406S0061

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech