AMD lawsuit is 'publicity stint'

It is just a publicity stint. They world now reads that Intel used it muscles and money to block competition, and that people are more aware that there is an Intel alternative, plus the alternative is better. All these will be dragged out in open court and the world get to read as court proceedings, not an advertisement.

It will be an expensive case, but it sure beats paying an advertising agency ten times more, to do a similar job.

I would like to know the genius who thought of this idea - must be a damn good lawyer!

regards
Gerald D'cruz
Malaysia

Subject: AMD v, Intel

You might ask Mr. Wilkins where and when he got his law degree and when. Also ask him how many antitrust cases he has tried. I was involved in antitrust litigation that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Utilicorp case while working at Amoco. Also I was in charge of complicance with consent decrees under both the Sherman and Robinson Patman Acts for one of Amoco's subsidiary companies.

I seem to remember that the Robinson Patman Act prohibits in large part the kind of "kick backs" that Intel has given to Dell and the fiasco in Japan. The later is now final and is admissible in court as prima faciae evidence of wrong doing.

If my memory is correct, Mr. Wilkins also predicted victory for Microsoft at first the district court level and later at the Court of Appeals. I think we know that Microsoft was found guilty and the guiltyndecision was upheld on appeal although the remedy was reversed. Let us not forget the case that dragged on forever against IBM.

Ed Hinders

Subject: Intel

I was just thinking that Chip-zilla has not taken the military to court. I was in the Military for 12 years, and the word Intel is used on everything. But I really don't think the Military has asked Chip-zilla's permission to use the word Intel.

Oh, but wait!! The Military has been around a lot longer than Chip-zilla. Maybe the word Intel belongs to them ????

I think every web site in the world should have the word Intel in them.

THE INTEL-QUIRER what do you think !!

JD

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Subject: Opera/BitTorrent

Let's have them fix the performance issues and bugs that cause the browser to crash before they add new features such as a limited use bittorrent client.

Bittorrent may be good for distributing their program but I tend to move the files I download such as opera updates to a storage area on another computer. I'll benefit from others that are participating but I doubt they'll benefit much from me.

In the Linux verison they have alot of bugs and some of them are very annoying, such as the bug that causes the browser to crash after X number of tabs are opened or the one that causes an incredibly slow start up, or the one that causes it to forget that I've already stated how I want to start the browser, or the one that loses my registration info and prompts me to enter it again.

As well, they might want to fix their website support responsiveness to requests for help and might want to assist people in the web forums.

jdb

Subject: IBM introduces dual-core PowerPC 970 chip

Hello Paul:

I don't get it. Isn't this what Apple was both needing and wanting? Dual core ultra performance G5's, AND the long overdue G5 laptop chip? Just what is going on in Steve Job's head, anyways? Never mind, I don't want to know......

Sincerely,

Scott Peterson
Permanent Sig line:
No, I'm not the guy in California.

Subject: Crazy Spammers

Hi Mike,

After recieving several spam mails the last couple of weeks, with my spam filter NOT sorting them out, I got curious as to why, and to my amazement found something very interesting. Somehow these spam mails pass through most filters, doing some clever DIV SPAN html coding.

I've tried the page + code in Firefox, IE and Outlook (all up to date patched) The HTML code has to be rendered before the results can be interpreted, and that's probably why they pass through. Because most spam filters even enterprise suits, don't do this, because of the enormous CPU usage that would require. Even if rendering is done, I still doubt that it would be able to interpret the data correctly. For a bit more indepth on the problem, look at the posted link below.

Maybe it's nothing, but just thought you guys should have a look-see :) The symptoms can be seen on the following page:
http://www.ichonderoga.com/spam/

Ichon (faithful Inq reader)

Subject: Why 7 SuperMicro Opteron boards are being sold under the monarch brand

Mike,

I think your report hurt AMD's business. Every time you post a story about AMD wins, you invite some dark force to ruin it.

After your INQ report telling the story about monarch selling supermicro opteron boards, those boards were pulled off the online shop, and now the 7 of them are listed under the monarch brand. Those boards are quite impressive, all support dual core and are more versatile than Tyans's . I emailed monarch and ask if these boards are discontinued and how I would get support and what the hell happened. The monarch guy emailed back asking me to call him, as he thought it is more suitable to talk about it on the phone... something is fishy there, I can smell Paul Craig ....

I don't know if AMD is going to subpoena Monarch and compel them to tell the truth. But I do think you should call monarch and see if you can help undo the harm you have done to AMD. If you didn't post the story, those boards could be on sale for a bit longer. INTEL may eventually find out, but poor AMD would at least get a little bit more chance selling a couple more opterons ....

Dave Young

Subject: Jailed

Just goes to show how much you don't know about the issues. The U.S. has federal laws specifically designed to protect CIA agents from being outed because it could put an agent's life in danger. This isn't Watergate where we are trying to find out who knew what and when. This is about a source and several reporters who broke the law in revealing a agents identity. You tell me what is more important, the agents life or the reporter's non-existant (in this case) right to protect the source who, I will say it again VIOLATED federal law. There are NO protections when the law is violated.

Learn the facts, please.

rmoist

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