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EU Officials Raid Intel Offices
Eukariote writes "As part of the ongoing antitrust investigations, EU officials have raided Intel offices as well as offices of a number of IT firms manufacturing or selling computers. This follows the recent ruling by Japan's Fair Trade Commission declaring Intel's exclusionary practices illegal as well as the lawsuit filed by AMD."
Intel has done dirty things for years...
...???
Let us not forget where the Pentium actually came from... stolen designs from the DEC Alpha. Cyrix, VIA,
This is a huge company and they play hard. On one hand, I have to admire a company willing to implement espionage and sabotage to competitors. On the other, they're so large, they don't NEED to.
The end is certainly not near for Intel. Consumer confidence will probably remain the same. AMD *MAY* be compensated in a decade or two. All of this aside, at the end of the day, nothing has or will change. This is history repeating itself and it tends to do that.
Smart business move? Yes. Consequence free actions are generally good ones. Until a slap on the wrist becomes substantial, they can do whatever they want.
Don't be so quick to say that.. what about these:
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/2
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/02/1
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15
And what the hell...
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