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To: wbmw who wrote (241496)	9/29/2007 11:08:06 PM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I think AMD has hurt themselves a lot over the past year with their rhetoric and business decisions. Proving incompetence may be a reasonable tactic from the defense. Do you think AMD is prepared to defend against that? I see several problems with your post: A) Neither the US case or the EC case are about AMD's performance over the last year. B) Much of your argument rests on the premise that AMD's allegations and the EC's charges against Intel are all false. C) You once again mis-characterize one component of the allegations against Intel as simple price-drops. The allegations tailored, tiered rebates actually described in the allegations and charges are more insidious, as has been detailed here on numerous occasions (which is why your continued mis-characterization is so annoying.) By basing the rebates on metrics derived from comparative market share, i.e. designed to exclude AMD, they are inherently predatory, with no possible economic justification (which is required, by law) other than the maintenance of market power and the impedance of free trade. fpg