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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (237714)	7/30/2007 7:21:13 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Sarmad: AMD's lawyer used "reasonable". That means reasonable to outside parties and the Competition Commission. It does not mean reasonable to Intel or its supporters, who would claim any action as reasonable. If you want to see what a legal look at European Union Commission looks at what is legal or not, look at this analysis of Article 82 of the Founding Treaty: ec.europa.eu They go by the effect and not the actions themselves. 82 part (c) of the link I gave Doug clearly states that a company can not discriminate between purchasers. Giving one company a large discount at 100% of sales and another a small one at 10% of sales where both bought the same number or where the second bought more is flat illegal. Plainly, you can't choose the discount by who is buying it. You can talk discounts by units purchased, but not percent of a customers sales or previous purchases. Don't believe me, the Commission and the Treaty state that. Pete