Re: Cause for concern
"Qualcomm are alleging that Arm are intending to change the way they do business. That's got to have been a decision made by Rene Haas. Why would that be a difficult thing to admit or deny?"
Maybe because they're big complex contracts tailored to the specific parties each time. They probably change them often in negotiations whenever they expire or need adjustment because a signatory wants to do something the contract didn't cover. If ARM made a statement like "Yes, we are going to change the contracts, but not like this", someone would be there to argue that they're clearly planning to do exactly that. If they say "No, we're not going to modify the contracts in that way", then when they make some other alteration, people would accuse them of the same thing. They have to respond quite specifically to the things they're accused of, and since their response is to a document submitted as part of a legal case they're in, they're not likely to be quick and careless with that response.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
