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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (259482)	4/6/2009 1:20:41 PM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

You can selectively cite websites of your choice but that's hardly definitive. LOL, now you're dismissing the USDOJ Antitrust Division's own website. I guess that settles the question of which of us is living in a state of denial... I think it boils down to this: If the law protects consumers then AMD must show consumer harm, or that Intel sold below cost. I don't think it can in either case. If the law protects competition then AMD will have to show how artificially raising prices and therefore harming consumers is a benefit to society. That will mean propping up a foreign owned company with manufacturing overseas while hampering a US based company with major $export$. A) You are contradicting your own words again. ("Clearly protecting competition is intended as a means of protecting the consumer.") B) As has been explained to you ad-infinitum, and as your quote in A) above seemed to indicate an awareness of, it's not an either-or choice. By protecting the process of competition, antitrust laws ultimately protect consumers and businesses from the harm that results from the process of competition being perverted. That is not a matter of opinion. It is simple, substantiated, logical fact. C) Your arguments, once again, ignore the accusations of Intel utilizing abusive loyalty rebates, which can raise consumer prices, as I just showed you can happen in theory. Message 25550072 Whether you believe Intel used such loyalty rebates or not, that is one of the allegations AMD will try to prove, so your "requirements" above are Yet Another Strawman. fpg