Daniel Lee Kruse wrote:

>--- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, "Mike O'Connor" 
>wrote:
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>>I just posted a zipped plain-text version of the PDF linked to the 
>>NYTimes story on the AMD claims against Intel in the group's files
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>area. 
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>>Need to view in e.g. System VIO 10pt.
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>I wonder this, too.  Seeing how Micro$oft'$ punishment did NOT fit the
>crime I can only wonder if Intel won't just get a slap on the hand
>like M$.  Actually, M$ punishment seemed like a sham as it will only
>confirm their dominance not punish them for their behavior.
>Later,
>Daniel Lee Kruse
>

Hi Daniel,

For the benefit of others the document is a 48-page long [partial] 
catalog, with actual examples,  of the way Intel has managed to screw 
AMD, by manipulating its own treatment of any company having dealings 
with AMD, to punish them financially, thus effectively excluding AMD 
from the entire global market - from the largest OEMs like Dell/HP/IBM 
down to companies like Office Max, thoroughly reprehensible tactics, for 
which they should be heavily punished. Their behaviour is just as bad as 
Micro$oft's has been, if not worse.  Definitely explains why AMD are in 
a "BetaMax situation", with the technically superior product, but being 
clobbered by unethical business tactics, some of which are almost 
unbelievable from a company with the stature of Intel.

Hopefully, in view of the fact that:

    "The Japanese Government recognized these competitive harms when on
    March 8, 2005, its Fair Trade Commission (the "JFTC") recommended
    that Intel be sanctioned for its exclusionary misconduct directed at
    AMD. Intel chose not to contest the charges." [i.e. they didn't deny
    them!]

US Justice might feel similarly?

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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