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To: smooth2o who wrote (242139)	10/9/2007 2:46:07 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 275872

Smooth, Re: Your (and AMD's) assertions that Intel is stupid enough to violate known laws is ridiculous.> You have a point there. Intel has a large and active legal department advising management. It's not like the little previously penalized companies like ATT, IBM, etc. which were unsophisticated and had little recourse to legal experts. I think I'm buy'n your argument. -tgp

To: smooth2o who wrote (242139)	10/9/2007 3:22:26 PM
From: muzosi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Intel is stupid enough to violate known laws is ridiculous. You are acting like they have no knowledge of the situation they are in... my understanding of law as a lay person is that it's there to tell you what you can't do but you're on your own to decide what you can (want to) do. so it becomes an optimization of what you want to do (+), the cost if you get caught(-). it seems to me that the larger your legal dept, the closer you get to the line because that's what they're paid for. to push the line as much as "legally" possible. but there is also a conflict because they're employees too so what the management wants to do sometimes drives what the legal dept "thinks" is legal. people want to tell their boss what they think the boss wants to hear. if the information you have conflicts with the bosses wishes one has a difficult choice to make. so to recap i think a large legal dept actually indicates that not everything you do is kosher but you think you can get away with it.

To: smooth2o who wrote (242139)	10/9/2007 3:47:15 PM
From: morpheus4567	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Sometimes a company will do something and beg forgiveness later because they were able to do something very close to the line and get away with it previously. Don't assume they didn't willingly do this with the expectation that they could call on past practices for defense. "It's always been marginally ok, and we can build a defense if called into question" Also don't assume the legal climate will stay the same, there are alot of companies that are getting in trouble because they did something on the line of legal/illegal and the current legislative climate moved the fence post slightly one way or the other...