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To: fastpathguru who wrote (259485)	4/6/2009 1:47:32 PM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

LOL, now you're dismissing the USDOJ Antitrust Division's own website. No, I'm just pointing out that it's one of multiple sources and you are selectively posting the parts that support your position. 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. Sigh... If you elevate protecting competition above protecting the consumer then an infraction can occur in the absence of any consumer harm. I don't think we as a society want that because it rewards incompetence, as we have seen in AMD's case, and leads to higher prices to support the inefficient competitor. The exact opposite of it's intent. 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. I don't ignore them, I don't believe them. But let's not mix cases, are you talking about the US anti-trust case or something else? Because I don't want to argue multiple situations at the same time where different laws may apply. I don't believe AMD can show any consumer harm from loyalty rebates in the US nor can they show prices below cost. Until we can see some evidence from overseas collected under oath, there's no point arguing.