| ▲ | luckystarr 5 hours ago |
| Is DisplayLink a company owned by Synaptics or just a file in a portfolio? How do they make money from DisplayLink except from selling the docks? Licensing? |
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| ▲ | mzs 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They make money by authoring standards which force vendors to buy even more parts/licenses from them. |
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| ▲ | dmitrygr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| DisplayLink was acquired by Synaptics in 2022 |
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| ▲ | luckystarr 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | So they are and aren't part of OIN at the same time. | | |
| ▲ | JoshTriplett 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Per the article, even if they weren't trying to play semantic games about subsidiaries (which OIN really shouldn't allow), OIN excludes "codec" patents and considers the DisplayLink patents to be "codec" patents. | | | |
| ▲ | dmitrygr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Schrödinger’s membership. Exists when it helps them, they’ve never heard of it when it doesn’t |
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