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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (170215)	8/28/2002 3:53:33 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Duke, AMD cannot file such a suit, since it knows the benchmarks are false and has not made a purchase decision based on them. Many little shops, and large ones too, will have made use of the Bapco data to sway clients into an Intel purchase by telling those clients that Bapco is a company that measures performance and is not beholden to anyone. In fact this was all false and therein lies the Intel vulnerability to a class action that will soon be brought by these many millions of hurt consumers. As a side note, a lawsuit was brought here in Canuckia, against politicians that lied. That law suit was lost since the courts held that the politicians were merely engaging in 'puffery' and people knew and discounted such puffery and did indeed expect their pols had feet of clay instead of the wings of angels. Now much advertising falls into the description of puffery, and we all know that the super pufft company (maker of popcorn, superpufft.com ) and Intel have both puffed their products far larger than real life. Now we know Intel was a fully marketing puffed company and in addition they also used the Bapco data as independent(not puffery, but words you can rely on) benchmarks. That means Intel is quite vulnerable to such a lawsuit and I expect one or more CA lawsuits to start picking the flesh from their bones quite soon now. Bill