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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (255060)	8/1/2008 6:05:59 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: How do you tailor your business to conform to a notion that any dominant market share position is bad? No one cares about market share dominance, what they care about is criminal activity. So how about Intel avoiding 3rd party tortious interference? That would be a start. How would you feel if AMD offered Intel $500,000 to fire you and Elmer? Or if they offered my employer $500,000 to fire me? (maybe I shouldn't have asked that last one....) That's what Intel's been doing to AMD. Sticking their Intelian nose into transactions between AMD and its customers. And that's illegal.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (255060)	8/1/2008 6:30:53 PM
From: Elmer Phud	Respond to of 275872

How do you tailor your business to conform to a notion that any dominant market share position is bad? That's my impression as well but to be fair, we don't know that for sure. Her comments seem to suggest that but until we see a ruling, and the reasoning behind it, we can only speculate. IF it turns out that a monopoly is verboten then that becomes a real problem because AMD can not continue to exist as a competitive threat under the current financial conditions. How do you have competition when there is no viable competitor? I think the anti-monopoly policy was crafted with a commodity type mindset. You can't let anyone corner the beef market type thinking. But due to the enormous cost of entry, and the penalty of falling behind without sufficient financial resources to get back into the game, the EU may be forced to look at Intel and MSFT as something akin to public utilities that are awarded a monopoly but tightly regulated. What other option is there for the EU if monopolies are not allowed and AMD drops out?