Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 12, 2009 @03:04AM from the mr.-otellini-tear-down-that-wall dept.

Kohenkatz writes "Intel has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In return, AMD will drop its lawsuits about patent and antitrust complaints. The two companies released this joint statement: 'While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development.' The press release also says, 'Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement,' and that 'Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement.'"

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Re:Only $1.25 Billion? by Disgruntled+Goats · 2009-11-12 04:21 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe they will be able to hire more open-source driver developers...
Why should they have to? Wasn't the community going to pick up the specs and source code offerings and write the drivers all by themselves and that they would be magically awesome in no time? Oh wait, that never happened. The freetards just bitched and moaned and cried because they were unable to write anything good and demanded that AMD do all the work for them.