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AMD Subpoenas to Stop Document Destruction
cyberfunk2 writes "It appears that a court has granted AMD a "no-shred" request with respect to documents related to its' charges of Intel anticompetitive behavior. 9 of the 32 companies subpoenaed so far have said they will adhere to the order. The 9 are Acer, Gateway, Lenovo, NEC, Rackable Systems, Sony, Sun, Tech Data and Circuit City. Others have promised to respond soon."
I guess they have many electronic documents as well... Does the order apply to "not deleting the file". More specifically, how do they intend to enforce this order ! They can't obviously sit and ensure that no shredding is performed or no document is deleted !
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The nature of the complaint sounds awful, and AMD certainly has a very competitive product that Intel is trying to quash. I can't help but wonder, though, at how difficult it is going to be to prove the charges AMD makes, and even if they are proved, by the time years have passed and the judgement is made, the market will be way down the road. Look at the Microsoft browser case: while there was relief granted, did it really make a difference by the time it was given?
In addition, the sheer volume of paperwork requested (38 companies) indicates that this is going to be huge and take time to prosecute. While that's great for the lawyers, I'm not so sure it serves the interests of their client. Aside from a insignificant (relatively speaking) award and the lawyers getting paid, I can't remember one tech company suing another and actually coming out on top of the market years later. Perhaps they are doing this for deterrence purposes? ie, to keep Intel from continuing its practices during the trial?
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* Outsourcer of jobs to overseas, according to CNN's Lou Dobbs, at a time when huge numbers of US tech workers are unemployed.
Ooooh, that's a huge misdeed, and I trust Lou Dobbs with my life!
And from the same link:
"The purpose of the new capitalism is to shoot the wounded."
Andy Grove, Intel Chairman
[leading to monopolies? to cartels? to fascism?]
* Class-action suit alleging that the Pentium IV is slower than the Pentium III despite Intel's marketing hype. Info here
* Supported California Proposition 64, which prevents many just lawsuits against corporate criminals. info
* Theft of $1.969 billion as "tax breaks" from US Taxpayers between 2001-2003, thanks to legally-bribed politicians. Information here.
* Intel received $300 million in tax breaks from localities over 30 years ending 1993 despite being a major polluter. More information here.
* Intel was caught in a $600 billion tax-evasion scheme. Info.
* Intel tried to have an ex-employee Kenneth Hamidi prosecuted for trespassing when he sent emails to former ex-coworkers at their work email addresses. His emails contained criticism of the company. Intel ultimately failed. More info here and here.
* Intel is currently polluting at Corrales, New Mexico
How can you tell whether an organisation is shredding or not if they do it covertly? After all, if you have something to hide why are you going to worry about someone telling you to stop if you think you can cover your tracks - or is this like the infamous "have you stopped beating your wife?" question?
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Others have promised to respond soon.
Yeah, hang on, we'll send in our response as soon as we're done shredding these last few tons of paper.
Even without Toshiba, or the other 22 comapanies that have not responded or made a decision yet, AMD still has some big guns on their side.
Those 9 companies are big names and could win the case for them if indeed they have the evidence AMD is hoping for.
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Please wait... Here, last document....
OK, now we promise we won't destroy any more documents.
Imagine you work at one of these 32 companies and you're dilligently working on a project that's going fantastically. Suddenly because of some lawsuit that you have nothing to do with and the company only tangentially has any relationship with one of the two parties, you have to stop working on your project so that you can immediately begin a document preservation project.
I'm not saying AMD isn't within their rights, I'm just making the observation that it's getting so difficult to do business anymore. Bad enough companies have to dodge copyright, trademark and patent infringement cases all day for things they actually do. Add to that cases that they had little or nothing to do with, but they might have some document that some other company sent to them.
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Those responsible for shredding the important documents, have been sacked. ...
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We apologize again for the inconvienence. Those responsible for sacking the people who were shredding documents have also been sacked.
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And they said zombies weren't real!
Man it is totally unfair to not allow them to skateboard during this!
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necessity.
Would you rather AMD go out of business?
Their competition outsources and so must they.
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if Intel is doing what AMD alledges, I would assume many third-party companies resent what Intel is doing. Shred? They may secretly help AMD behind the scenes for all we know.
They may not want to be held hostage.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Not only that, but the majority of AMD's outsourced jobs don't go to places like India, but rather to Germany, another first-world nation to workers that are making wages similar to, if not better than, those that their American counterparts. Sure, I'd prefer that money stayed at home, but in all fairness, I can't lump sending that money to another country where workers are generally treated a little bit better than the US as far as benefits go in the same category as sending programming jobs to India to save money. Lou Dobbs is a fairly smart guy, but he's got a huge nationalist streak, and it shows in reports like this.
Outsourcing isn't a misdeed.
AMD has no duty whatsoever to employ anyone in the first place, and they're perfectly entitled to have work done overseas if it makes financial sense to do so.
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This is a typical motion granted by judges in litigation. The order simply states that the company preserve its documents. The company under the order has to implement certain policies to preserve documents for litigation. That would include not shredding files or deleting electronic files. Keep in mind that questioning the bejeezus out of company executives about how documents are handled is a very effective litigation technique since most large companies, if they are smart, have detailed document retention policies. And most employees don't follow them to the letter. Which looks very bad.
We told them to "Ship the Enron documents to the Feds", but what they heard was "Rip the Enron documents to shreds".
It was all just a case of bad cellular.
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Why did they not bother with Dell?
Is seems obvious to me that Dell is getting something for not using AMD chips. A company that was so open about wanting to build a freaking Macintosh X86 computer would not EVER use an AMD chip?
So on one hand they will build a computer, that "may" be radically different than any other they have produced, for say 2% of the market, and of that market a large percentage would still only buy from Apple. But they won't use AMD for ANY systems??? I am willing to bet that AMD would make up far more than the fraction of a percentage of their sales...
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