Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 17:47 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
Parent article: Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up (Fortune)

If Seagate wants to use its patents, it would do so to extract money from the flash drive makers, not to attempt to shut them down. Should they try the latter, then the flash drive makers would just invent new protocols that work around the patents. Instead, they'll ask for just enough money so that it will be cheaper to pay than to fight. That's how the game is played.