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Comments: 1 +- Seagate may sue if Solid State Disks get popular-> on Monday March 24 2008, @03:29AM tero
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tero writes "Even though Seagate has announced it will be offering SSD disks of its own in 2008, their CEO Bill Watkins seems to be sending out mixed signals in a recent Fortune interview:
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"He's convinced, he confides, that SSD makers like Samsung and Intel (INTC) are violating Seagate's patents. (An Intel spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on speculation.) Seagate and Western Digital (WDC), two of the major hard drive makers, have patents that deal with many of the ways a storage device communicates with a computer, Watkins says. It stands to reason that sooner or later, Seagate will sue — particularly if it looks like SSDs could become a real threat.
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Seagate, lawyers are not your R and D department! (Score:2)
How about this proposition, do some R and D for the first time in a generation?
Then you would be ready to make a profit.