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Re:AMD may have to stop making x86 CPUs tomorrow by nop on Friday May 15, 2009 @11:39AM (#610754)
It's only dirty if Intel isn't guilty but AMD is somehow influencing the ruling against Intels favor. Assuming AMD is indeed doing that, it's still only the corporate version of reporting a crime to the police.
Re:AMD may have to stop making x86 CPUs tomorrow by tc on Friday May 15, 2009 @11:51AM (#610774)
We live in a messy world where regulators often have wide discretion and politically-driven motivations. Guilt or innocence in a matter like this is on a completely different plane from guilt or innocence in a murder trial. Even if we had perfect information about the past, reasonable people could debate endlessly about whether the sum of actions constituted "anti-competitive" behavior (which is banned) rather than just simple competition (which is encouraged, as opposed to, say, collusion).
Re:AMD may have to stop making x86 CPUs tomorrow by billswift on Saturday May 16, 2009 @12:10PM (#612270)
Since "anti-trust" is bad law, anyone who files complaints about it is "dirty".