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AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case
Skjellifetti writes "CNet has an article that says that AMDs CEO is opposed to the MS antitrust remedy being persued by the states. "
There's a lot of information packed fairly tightly in that article that I won't
rehash here. Worth a read tho. Update: 04/16 18:01 GMT by M : Reuters has a story with more about Sanders' testimony today.
As we saw with Intel just a few years ago, the big monopoly CAN be taken down. If there is a better product (ie Linux) at a better price, it can take over the market. I don't have to remind you of which processor has the best performance right now.
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Someone has a clue here, wow, who would have thunk it?
Some of the statements in the article strike me as quite bizzare. They claim that de-integrating Windoze and opening up the APIs would set the computer industry back 20 years... That should be plainly absurd to even to a complete moron. In that era we're talking monochrome greenscreens, IBM PCs (the original), Apple ][, TRS-80, etc. I mean, 1982 is the year TCP/IP was invented.
At the end Sanders claims most server operating systems run on specialized microprocessors... Excuse me? Ever hear of Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI, etc. etc.? I would think that the Linux crowd would be more likely to use an AMD processor than the average Windows user (who would have some pre-built PC sporting a Pentium 3/4 with a big MHz number).
They do have a (partially) valid point about integration though... While I don't know that it does anyone any good to force Internet Exploder and Media Slayer down everyone's throat, some integration is a Good Thing. Remember having to use Trumpet Winsock in Win 3.1 to use the Internet? Nobody thinks integration of a TCP/IP stack into the OS was a bad thing. I'm not even against the inclusion of M$'s HTML rendering engine (it's one of the better ones - ActiveX and crap aside). Lots of apps seem to be moving away from Windoze help files (which suck) to HTML documentation, and having HTML rendering handled by the OS seems perfectly acceptable (and it doesn't force any particular product on the user).
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AMD on the stand: "You see, your honor, unless we take the side of Microsoft in this trial, they will strangle our company into bankrupcy within two years. So, my testimony is, they are not a monopoly! No way! Not them! They are innocent of all bad things anyone has ever accused them of, and furthermore, they are nice people who love children and puppies and the American way. I'm forgetting something... oh, here are my notes... Oh yes, their products won over so many users because they are superior to everything their competitors produced. Can we go now?"