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To: Scumbria who wrote (98612)	3/15/2000 8:27:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570342

Re: "Intel lawsuits. The same thing that kept AMD non-competitive for the first half of the decade" Scumbria this is more nonsense. You can't patent an instruction set. Intel never sued AMD for using Intel instructions. They sued because AMD decided to steal Intel's microcode. You know better than to post this nonsense Scumbria. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (98612)	3/15/2000 8:55:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570342

Scumbria, SInce the SSE are software instructions that perform certain data manipulations AMD can write their own code to do the same manipulations as long as they make sure they did write it in an original manner. They may well end up with identical code it there is only one way to do a certain task. Like the list of cars in a parking lot....you can copyright the list and I cannot copy the list, however I can walk the same parking lot and make the same list 'de novo' and be legal. If sued I have to be able to show how I walked the parking lot and made the list....it is an absolute defence.....the phone company lost this one to the independent listmakers. Now if they have patented routines in there....different story....lawsuit time. Bill