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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (108730)5/1/2000 12:57:00 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 1571989
 
Re: Just look at what is happening to Intel...by AMD, without government intervention...

Hi Jim,

If Intel hadn't been blocked from telling Compaq and IBM and HP "If you sell computers with AMD processors, we won't sell you any CPUs" would AMD been able to do it? Would MSI and FIC have dared to build motherboards? Do you doubt that Intel wouldn't have done just that if it could have gotten away with it?

It's so appealing to just say "keep the government out of it". But the government is the one monopoly we can't get away from having, and look how screwed up it always is. Historically, societies are usually made up of a handful of wasteful, inefficient monopolies. The notion that a monopoly is more efficient than a bunch of competing companies is the basis of communism - and it just doesn't seem to have worked out that way.

Regards,

Dan
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