Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 51 Infringing Products!

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When these words appeared, Ethan Jones was completely stunned!
The first generation of Shenxin 6502 was developed based on Motorola 6800?
What the hell!

Isn't this blatant plagiarism?

Under his questioning, Chuck Padre also told the situation faced by MOS 6502.

It turns out that after leaving Motorola, these engineers immediately began to develop cheap chips, but how could developing chips be so simple?

Every morning after work, they spread out the drawings on their desks, and then spend the whole day with a cup of coffee, a pack of cigarettes, and a piece of blank paper to look at.

They were unable to start writing.

It’s not that I can’t draw it.

But I don’t know how to draw.

Because they developed the Motorola 6800 before!

When their inventions have been tested by the market and confirmed to be without problems, if you ask them to change their thinking and do it again, isn't that asking them to die?

Under such circumstances, they racked their brains for a long time and finally made some innovation and designed a CPU called MOS 6501.

So what is the innovation of this CPU?
It solves some of the bugs in Motorola 6800...

If you disassemble a computer with a Motorola 6800 installed, peel off the 6800 and solder the MOS 6501 on, you will find that the machine can still operate normally. Not only that, the performance of the 6501 is even better than that of the 6800!
When this fact came out, people like Chuck Pete were stunned!

Because they know that this is plagiarism.

I just copied myself.

Not knowing how to deal with this situation, they sent a letter to Motorola, informing Motorola of the situation of MOS 6501.

Then--

Motorola sued MOS.

Motorola stated that MOS had infringed its patent rights and demanded that MOS stop the infringement and compensate for the losses.

Since MOS was just a small company founded in 1969, in order to ensure the normal operation of their company, they had no choice but to slide down and reach an out-of-court settlement with Motorola.

It voluntarily gave up the MOS 6501 product and paid Motorola $ in compensation.

Since MOS took the initiative to inform the company of the incident, and most of MOS' engineers came from Motorola, Motorola didn't bother to care after apologizing and paying compensation.

Chuck Peteau and others who were unwilling to give up their dreams developed a new chip, MOS 6502.

"So... does your MOS 6502 infringe copyright?"

Chuck Peteau's description gave Ethan Jones a toothache.

He never imagined that the reason why MOS's products were so cheap was because the R&D costs were very low?
What the hell is this!

After hearing Ethan Jones' question, Chuck Peddle on the other end of the phone smiled helplessly and said, "Ethan, I can only tell you that MOS 6502 is not compatible with Motorola 6800. At the same time, MOS 6502 uses a newer manufacturing process."

'have to!'

Ethan understood.

The architecture of MOS 6502 is probably not much different from that of Motorola 6800.

And this may be a problem that Chuck Petrus will never be able to solve.

After all, people’s thinking is patterned.

When a person firmly believes that their direction is correct, only hitting a wall can make them turn back.

Ethan felt uncomfortable when he thought about the unclear relationship between 6502 and Motorola.

When the Jinshan in front of you has legal problems...

So what exactly is this flashy appearance that he sees?

Is it real gold that is within your reach, or stinking dog shit?

Ethan didn't know.

But he knew that before purchasing the license, he had to ask the key questions.

"So, Mr. Paddo, have you consulted a lawyer?"

This question made Chuck Peteau sigh and say, "Ethan, our company has a legal department, and they told me that if Motorola really wants to sue us again, we may still be convicted of infringement." "Is there a way to solve it?"

“We are working on it.”

"Then I want to know, since you don't have a patent, how dare you sell your products? And from what I understand, you will participate in the San Francisco Electronics Show in September?"

"Well... since you trust us so much, we will tell you directly that this is just a temporary plan. If there is really a problem, we can not go. As for the issue of sales... let me tell you this, if someone wants to buy, we will make it, if no one wants to buy, we will not produce it. After doing this, when Motorola really sues us, we can minimize the loss. At the same time, if we can sell a large number of chips at one time, it can be regarded as doing something we can for the market."

After a few more words of communication, Ethan hung up the phone.

Ethan leaned against the table and thought carefully for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

MOS 6502 is actually an infringing product?

So how did it sell so well in its previous life?

A settlement with Motorola?

Or found a solution?
Ethan couldn't find any memory related to it.

At the same time, he also wondered if Chuck Petrus was fooling him.

Just because they don't want to authorize, they claim to have legal problems?
When he confirmed this idea with the fat boy who came back in the evening, the fat boy's first reaction was surprise, and his second reaction was to help Ethan ask people.

After he made a few phone calls and called his uncle a few times, Ethan finally got the truth from him.

"Chuck, there's nothing wrong with what they said."

"Motorola did sue them before and demanded a million dollars in damages, and they did reach a settlement in the end and paid two hundred thousand dollars."

"It seems I was wrong. This matter is indeed quite troublesome."

Ethan felt a bit of a headache after hearing what Wozniacki said.

The one who had a bigger headache than him was actually Jobs.

After Wozniacki finished his dinner and went into the garage, he also came up to Ethan and asked nervously, "Will this legal issue affect computer sales?"

Ethan spread his hands and said, "Normally it won't have any impact, but it's hard to say about the rest."

"Let me give you an analogy. If you buy a batch of 6502 chips now and put them in computers and sell them, Motorola cannot stop this. Even if Motorola sues MOS in the process, wins the lawsuit and stops the production of 6502, these chips that have already flowed into the market will not be recovered."

"but……"

"What happens when 6502 runs out?"

"What chip should you use?"

“There’s just no such cheap alternative on the market.”

"Oh! Sxxt!" This fact made Steve Jobs curse.

He kicked the chair angrily.

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of clanging noises.

The orange-yellow wooden chairs and the old floor collided with each other, making waves of painful wails.

Then...

Steve Jobs left home and rode his motorcycle to an unknown location.

Listening to the sudden roar, Ethan sighed.

Although his past life memories told him that MOS 6502 could survive until 2023, and the patent issue would definitely be resolved, he had no idea how to solve it or what method to use.

He could indeed rely on his memories from his past life to purchase the authorization for MOS 6502, but no one could guarantee that the butterfly wings he flapped would make MOS 6502 legendary again.

What if MOS 6502 cannot resolve the patent dispute with his intervention?
Then isn't it the same for him to rush to purchase the authorization as ripping his pants open and letting others shit in his crotch?

This seems a bit stupid no matter how you look at it, doesn't it?
‘Fuck! ’

'Why is my time travel different from others?'

'Is it so difficult for me to pick up some money?'

Note: ① The predecessor of 6502, 6501, was really copied, and this was confirmed by Motorola. And Motorola also did something tricky here. Didn’t 6501 infringe on the copyright and fix the bug of 6800? After winning the lawsuit, Motorola directly fixed 6501 based on 6800. ② In fact, if MOS didn’t tell Motorola that it made 6501 and didn’t show 6501, it wouldn’t have to pay compensation, but these engineers did it. I don’t know why. ③ 6502 does have copyright issues, and Synertek, which owns the production rights, has confirmed this problem. When they signed a contract with MOS, there was a clause that they would stop producing 6502 if Motorola sued them for copyright protection.

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