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To: smooth2o who wrote (237883)	7/31/2007 4:49:14 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

s2o, Right. Thanks for the lesson, Joe. So you think that Intel asked any customer to keep their volume with Intel over 80% or so and offered incentives to do so, based on something AMD thinks happened and hasn't been able to get anyone to verify. Well, let's see, I think it was 1982 when I first went to the Intel Anti-trust Institute and learned all about how to behave in front of the customer for anti-trust issues. That program is still going on. Intel pleaded no contest to the same charges 2-3 years ago in Japan, same charges were filed in EU and I believe same charges are investigated in Korea as well. It seems that the pattern is well established. Other countries have their anti-trust laws modeled largely by Sherman / Clayton Acts. As far as Intel anti-trust behavior, it can be stopped overnight, but it is not what Intel wants. Intel wants to use any tool (legal or illegal) to damage AMD business, and the Intel Anti-trust institute (or whatever) is about how to get away with it. OK, OK, OK. Let's say they do find an actual contract with that wording. Now, you're telling me that all of Intel's business will be penalized for awards? Intel won't show that that DIDN'T happen anywhere else? Are you suggesting that OJ's lawyers should have argued that there are over 6 billion people OJ didn't murder? As far as award or potential settlement of US civil case, I think we are far from that. My expectation is that Intel will fight to the last appeal the US civil case, but will be extremely accomodating with EU regulators, with main focus not being potential fines, but effect of the EU case on the US civil case. Joe