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To: rudedog who wrote (54921)	5/1/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

rudedog - Re: "You did not address the issue of red book access. Do you regard the denial of key engineering information to some potential customers but not to others as a legitimate business practice? What about the virtual moratorium that DEC suffered? In the forum of public opinion, which is where the FTC will be playing, the opinions of industry insiders will have as much weight as whatever truth you are referring to. " Consider the following scenario. AMD calls up Intel and asks to buy a dozen Pentium II devices. Intel says, ah heck, and ships them the 12 parts. The next week, AMD calls up Intel and says "Now that we are a customer of yours, we would like ALL YOUR ROADMAP PLANS, Product plans for the next 5 years and every other piece of proprietary information you give to your other "Customers"...and if we don't get it, we're going to sue you" Intel is a company which has the same rights as you or I. They can give whatever information they want to whomever they choose. They are in business to make money and they thrive or die based on making the correct business decisions. Paul