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To: John Hull who wrote (57631)	6/9/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Here is the substance of the suit "[The FTC accused] the company of threatening and actually injuring three computer manufacturers, including Compaq, in an attempt to coerce them to turn over their rights to patented technologies..." The centerpiece of the suit concerns Intel's withholding of proprietary information from Compaq. "...The Government's suit asserts that Compaq sued Packard Bell in 1994, contending that the company was using patented Compaq technologies in its computers when, in fact, the components in question had been supplied by Intel...In response to Compaq's assertion of its intellectual property rights...Intel cut off technical information about Intel microprocessors that Compaq needed..." "If Intel can use its monopoly position in the market for microprocessors to prevent other companies from enforcing their own patents, other companies will have little incentive to invent new features to challenge Intel's dominance." ---NYTimes ============= Real scumbags huh John. And you worked for them right? Anything goes in the Intel "culture"? You identify the enemy and then you get them anyway you can? Everyone ends up paranoid and vicious. I see what this "culture" did to Engel, what did it do to you?