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AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-look-at-that dept.

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.

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  1. Killing any monopoly will harm customers by Zo0ok · · Score: 4, Informative
    I find it very likely that the computer industry and consumers would suffer (slightly) if MS is required to [your favourite punishment].

    After freeing up a monopilised market it always takes time for the market to stabilize, and during this time customers may suffer. This is however no reason not to kill off the monopoly.

    Of course MS supplies the "best" OS out there if you need to use applications requireing windows. This is no reason to protect the monopoly! The government regulated monopoly (in my country) for selling anything with alcohol is of course harmful to costumers the same way the microsoft monopoly is. And of course killing off the monopoly would lead to confusion and possibly worse customer service - until the market has stabilized.

  2. Re:AMD's advantage by junkster191 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sorry, Intel taken down? Are you smoking turpentine laced crack? :) Intel is still one of the most profitable businesses of all time, and despite AMD's performance advantage for the past few years they have only been able to increase their market share marginally. I personally love AMD to death, but now (starting with the 2.4G Northwood) benchmarkers everywhere are agreeing that Intel is now king of the speed hill. (Here's a typical review

    I hate to say it, but Intel never got 'taken down', and how much more progress do you think AMD is going to make now that they have finally have the slower processors?

    Sorry for the offtopic, but I have to blast these bizarre, dreamy head in the clouds claims when I see them.

  3. Re:Proprietary hardware? by T-Punkt · · Score: 3, Informative

    The SPARC platform is not proprietary, it's an open standard.