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Rod Speed
Peter said:But you have said:
"When the drive is in the user's hands, the fee has either been paid
and the feature is there or it is not."
So assume interesting situation, when manufacturer elects
not to pay royalties (you brought up that idea). It would not
provide that "quiet" feature, right?
Wrong. The other possibility is that the drive manufacturer
can decide that whoever is claiming that royaltys must be
paid to them before a drive can have AAM is not legally
entitled to royaltys for AAM and can choose to not pay
royaltys and have AAM available anyway.
Then drive does not have "quiet" feature
and user cannot enable "quiet" feature.
That is just one of the 3 possibilitys.