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To: drjohn who wrote (212178)	10/2/2006 2:53:55 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

re: 2.) That's not how Intel's advertizing money works, this has been rehashed many times. Fine, you've just admitted that Intel broke the law. It would be legal for Intel to promise $2 of marketing money for the first million uP's, $3 for the next million, etc., because this would have economic justification, as long as the numbers were similar for all OEM's. But not to dispense marketing money based on an OEM's total sales in a quarter, with different breakpoints for each OEM. That is nothing but a thinly disguised loyalty rebate. If that's what your Intel ethics classes taught you, they taught you to break the law. It would not surprise me. I seem to recall Paul Engel claiming that it was legal to set sales targets as long as they were for periods of time less than a YEAR. Petz