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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 213.49-0.1%Feb 11 3:59 PM EST
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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (268528)10/12/2011 2:01:27 PM
From: fastpathguruRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
>the fundamental purpose of anti-competition law is to level the playing field, and not to prop up weaker competitors.

A weak competitor was the measure of an unlevel playing field. By "leveling" it, Intel has only performed better and AMD worse.

Come on, now you're just making s**t up as you go again. The actual measure of an unlevel playing field would have been a trial, deciding the issue of the allegations against Intel.

As it happened, the parties settled with, as you said, AMD getting a wad of cash and almost everything they wanted, in lieu of this "measure."

Maybe it wasn't so unlevel in the first place. Intel said AMD's woes were self inflicted. After all the "leveling", AMD did a swan dive into an empty pool. Only the Lawyers prospered from all the bickering, not the consumer. The Corporate ambulance chasers lined their pockets and that's about all that came out of it.

There was no trial, as you're so fond of reminding everyone... What Intel said is as irrelevant as what AMD said.

Regardless, the behavioral changes imposed on Intel were intended to level the playing field, not rig it in AMD's favor... They had no guarantee of subsequent success in the post-settlement market.

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