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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (241845)	10/5/2007 8:27:48 AM
From: gvatty	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Rebates are good for the consumer. They allow vendors to charge less for their PCs. If AMD had to compete by providing even deeper discounts, so much the better for the end user. Why give rebates to the oem? Why not charge them less for the chips and not tie them to predatory practices. Btw a consumer can benefit in the short term from Intel predatory practices. It's when all the competition is wiped out when the consumer loses. Would you have a problem if Microsoft bought AMD, reduced AMD chip prices by 75% for the next 5 years to benefit the consumer, and rewrote all their software so it could only be used by AMD chips? I would assume if Microsoft did this and was not stopped by any government agency that AMD chip prices would rise in year 6. Also, the Sherman Antitrust Act allows for treble damages.

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