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To: hmaly who wrote (89385)	1/25/2000 2:10:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1580270

Re: "Have you ever bothered to look up the definition of a price war. According to my New World dictionary "price war a situation in which competitors selling a certain commodity successfully lowers prices, as to force one or more competitors out of business." Yes, that's what my dictionary says too, but I think the definition is incomplete. One cannot wage a price war from above, meaning that Intel's prices have always been above AMD's prices. Isn't it implied in the definition that a company must lower it's prices below the competitor's price? If there were no implied conditions in that definition, then AMD could be accused of trying to drive itself out of business by lowering it's own prices below cost, which it did for several years. The definition does not say you have to be driving the OTHER company out of business. Clearly this is NOT what was intended in the definition, but it is not excluded by it either unless you accept some implied conditions. Nor did it intend to imply a price war waged from a higher price point, as you are accusing Intel of. EP

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