When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
Sure for RAM but holy shit why is not done for medicine?
Kinda is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license?wprov=sfla1
The issue is that the USA threatened to sanction India over issuing compulsory licenses https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-faces-us-sanction-threat/articleshow/30309068.cms
It is. It’s called Compulsory Licensing.
There is also an FDA Shortage list (most countries have a similar list).
A drug on that list gives the government additional powers to allow companies to work around the parents.I think this is why there has been so many “off-brand” weight loss drugs recently. Novo Nordisk had supply chain issues with semaglutide, triggering governments to allow other manufacturers
The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.
Oh look, 'Murica brain…
It’s a common thing in a lot of the world. I’ve been on many medications throughout the years and all of them have had several options at each of the several drug store companies, and the default is always the cheapest. They always ask “are you ok with another brand?” if there’s a cheaper one than the one written on the prescription.Generics exist in America too.
India did it.
OK, but the leak in the article seems to have been in 2016 when conditions were very different.
The RAM industry has been a cartel for decades.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/2005/212002.htm
US frontier AI companies steal petabytes of copyrighted material.
Oh shucks 😂
Samsung uses monopoly tactics and government support to bankrupt smaller companies and then raise prices. They’re scum.
RAM is so important to the world economy that their patents should be made public.
Computer components being privatized is almost as stupid as privatizing grain in the 1500s. Sure, there are alternatives, but… Are there?
Ugh just went they settled with netlist!
Oh no! RAM prices might go down! Won’t somebody think of the poor shareholders?
We need to stop them from stealing 1 corporations IP, so tech corporations can continue making monopoly money off the entire human species stolen IP!
he he nice, fuck the ram cartel
Oh no—anyway
Oh NOW you care about stealing intellectual property!
Fuck off. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, AI assholes.
I couldn’t care less. Just make cheaper products with near or on par performance and you’re okay in my book.
Good. Fuck Samsung.
Yeah, whatever, anyway are they making loads of RAM? Can I have 64GB of Ram for £300 again please?
Oh nooooo China will have to…wait what will they have to do?
Proving all this in court could give Samsung a powerful weapon moving forward. Legal experts believe the company might take sworn statements straight to the US International Trade Commission, a body with the authority to block foreign products from entering the country entirely.
Which does not help because not every country will ban them and The other manufacturers will then have less demand and therefore have to reduce their prices in order to continue selling the same amount
Edit: Doing so may slow the rate of the price decline in the US, but it will not stop it.
If only there was some kind of court of world trade, that someone hadn’t blocked from functioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_Body
cry more
Good. Now also steal from Nvidia please. It would be so freaking funny!
But if China proves that US did industry spionage, what happens then?
Which time?
This time.
