DRVEN YOU SAID:

"Doni you raise an interesting question. But I do not see these two roles as mutually incompatible. They pay fees for their violations in the past and we become friends for any future endevours. It's done in business all the time"...

Your is also consistent with EDIG'S orginal stated objective that they wished to be suppliers of the Technology a la Qualcom to OEMS who wished to make widgets using FLASH...

One thing is to be added to the foregoing is that under the current state of the Law, EDIG can achieve the goal of acquiring many OEM cumstomers using its technology beyond the EXPIRATION DATE OF THE PATENTS IN QUESTION under the currently reconized exceptions to the decison of the Supreme Court which held once a patent expired that was it...

In a round about way, EDIG is doing by litigation what they started to do by trying partnering with various companies who are on the infringers list now and failed...

Gil...