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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (74850)	2/28/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

<I think its called restraint of trade.> I think it's called non sequiter. You can argue that the ID is bad, bad, bad, but restraint of trade? People still have a choice, no? That's what the Pentium III boycott is about; people who support the boycott will vote with their wallets. It's not like Intel is holding a gun to the heads of anyone and telling them, "You will buy an ID'ed processor. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own perfection. Resistance is ... er ... useless!" Now before you argue that Intel is a monopoly, and they'll use their monopoly power to "coerce" customers into the ID, just like Microsoft "coerced" customers into Internet Explorer, may I remind you of the news last Friday? AMD took the lead in retail computer sales in the month of January. Like Barrett said, "If Intel's a monopoly, we're a pretty crummy one." That's why this CDT complaint really makes no sense. Restraint of trade. Give me a break. Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (74850)	3/1/1999 4:05:00 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, re: "They are portraying the PIII as a way for an end user to get involved in e-commerce." Exactly how? I missed the ad. Re: "The whole processor id idea is quite intellectually deficient from the point of view of e-commerce." It doesn't appear to be a win for e-commerce security: the ID is not considered definitive evidence because there's no guarantee the ID matches the user since the user could have momentarily stepped away from their desk. Amy J