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To: fastpathguru who wrote (255000)	8/1/2008 1:04:21 AM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (3) of 275872

Plain English fails you again. "Competition" is what happens when competitors compete; a process. "The competition", from the perspective of competitor X, is the set of other competitors that competitor X faces during competition. Oh please... Is this really necessary? AMD is the only competitor. If you are protecting competition, you're protecting AMD. They are not the same thing. Protecting the process may benefit a/the competitor(s) as a side effect but the ultimate goal is to protect the consumer. In this case there is no one else so if the competition isn't with AMD then I don't know who else it might be with. Protecting competition and protecting the competitor are one and the same. If the goal were to protect the consumer then forcing prices higher seems to be a strange way of doing it. The fact that Intel has only one viable competitor makes the case against them stronger. Yes it does when you realize that the EU can not tolerate a dominate supplier. They've said so and you seem to agree. More evidence of your ignorance. This is a lame way of disputing something you have no other response for. It's a fact. If customers demanded AMD products then AMD could match Intel's pricing. The fact that customers don't want any more than a smattering of AMD products is the whole problem. Manufacturers don't want to give up their volume discounts for a small percentage of AMD products they would have trouble selling. If they could sell AMD products and make money they'd tell Intel to go pound sand. Yet more; the BS never ends. Again, you have no response. If consumers demanded AMD products then we wouldn't be having this discussion. They don't and that's apparently unacceptable to the EU. Here are some quotes: I'm not able to say precisely how much. It depends on a couple of issues. But obviously the path Microsoft took until today is far too much. It will have to diminish by more than a couple of %. We want the market to be open, so that competitors can do their job. We know that one single producer has a market share of 95%. This is clearly a monopoly and this is not acceptable. When you listen to the words of Neelie Kroes you can see what the real crime here is. A Monopoly is not acceptable. There must be competition yet there is no requirement that the competition be competitive. So who will provide the life support necessary to keep the non-competitive competitor alive so that there is the necessary competition? The consumer in the form of higher prices! Who else?

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