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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (78847)	11/6/1999 6:51:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

Elmer, I am not sure about that. If they have licensed others they must also licence AMD on similar terms.....is that not correct? I am not an expert in this area and if you are sure that they can pick and choose their clients licence I will defer to your knowledge. I do know they if a company has an item to sell they cannot refuse to sell to one person and then sell on the same terms to another. Does a patent differ? After all they have licenced many other people the use of those patents.... Of course it will take years to play out and no british judge will stop the trade as long as it is a disputable matter in the courts. Fake Rolex watches....yes, they will stop the same of those, but where Via can show licenses that they say are valid and Intel says are not...and bot have a sea of lawyers on their side. Sounds more like a chilling tactic to try and scare them into stopping right away. Bill