Dear Tench:
Of course, that all depends on how a judge sees it, but most of dispute isn't over facts, but over AMD's interpretation which IMO is bogus.
Then your opinions are bogus. AMD's interpretation is correct. You can't give a different discount schedule for each company. You can have only one universal discount schedule that all companies use. We now know that Intel had at least six different ones covering the same time period, Dell, Lenovo (IBM PC), Toshiba, Sony, Fujitsu and all others. Due to certain laws that you seem to ignore, this is blatently illegal. Each one of the above got the same CPUs at different prices. That's preferential treatment and that runs afoul of the Antitrust and Ralston/Pellman laws. Even Intel realized this because they required it be kept secret.
You wouldn't like it either, if companies did it to you. For example, your neighbor has an identical house to yours and it uses the same amount of natural gas to heat his and yours. You would be very angry if your neighbor got that amount of gas for half of what you paid because the gas company liked him better. Your price for groceries is higher than his because they like his face. He pays his property taxes at a quarter of what you pay, because they don't like you. Spread that out to all items you purchase and you quickly would howl at the unfairness of it all. Yet that is what your opinion states, if taken at its word and applied globally. But you don't want it applying to you, just AMD and its customers.
That is why your viewpoint is bogus and hypocritical.
Pete |
