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To: Scumbria who wrote (51886)	3/8/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (2) of 1571697

Most of the commentary that I saw said that most lawyers felt that the FTC case was real weak. And this decision had little or nothing to do with AMD,but with Intel's relations with Compaq, DEC and Intergraph. If AMD has yield problems, speed bin problems or functioning parts problems it is hard for me to feel that they didn't make their own problems worse by management decisions. Although I know you disagree, AMD has been a textbook example of fairly continuous questionable or worse decision making starting with what I have called "the business plan from hell". As an investment they have been a high risk - high potential reward company, in my view. But they chose that path and then walked it less than optimally. In today's climate, that gets noticed very fast. And I believe they have been less than completely forthcoming about it. I have only sympathy and empathy for the employees and shareholders who may/will be affected by this. The ability of line employees to tell the unvarnished truth to management is usually limited and/or punished. But I have far less sympathy and empathy for the folks that led this enterprise. I can see the next quarterly report. "Mistakes were made....".

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