Intel responds to AMD breach loudly
INTEL PUT OUT one of the pithiest responses yet to AMD's supposed breach a couple of days ago, and we are in awe that Intel would be so bold. That said, it is not what they said, but how they said it.
The email from Intel's press room had the title 'Intel Notifies AMD of Cross-License Breach', something that most tech journalists would want to read. When I opened it, I got what you see below. Yes, it is blank.
Brevity is a virtue
Within the last two weeks or so, all of the Intel automated PR releases are coming up blank. The nimrods at Intel are using Microsoft software to blast out emails, and are now using MS-specific extensions that won't render in non-MS software. Imagine the chances that that 'bug' got through MS testing, what are the odds?
That said, Intel is now broadcasting the fact that they don't like open source, and if you want to deal with them, you really need to get an OS with built in malware. Just when you thought they were making progress, they piddle it all away. At least they mostly stopped sending things in docx/pptx/xlsx. One would think that if you are important enough for them to send you information, they actually want you to read it.
In any case, if you are wondering why they did this, I can't tell you, either MS updated their mailer to hose open source, or Intel decided to be antisocial. If you are looking for articles on the Intel dividend or the two new people on the board, you won't find them because the mails on the topic are blank.
Yes, we can pick through the HTML and parse it manually, but as they say, filesystem check that. Large companies, especially technology-oriented ones like Intel, just need to step up to the plate and stop being stupid like this. It hurts them and hurts their user base.
When your company runs one of the largest Linux distros out there (Moblin), things like this make you look like rank amateurs. µ
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I think the font they used is stupid-proof, because I don't see anything written there either :(
Did you really just write that whole article, making wild speculations and accusations about Intel because you use some crappy news reader? How is this Intel's fault?
Cmon now... This article is simply about some news reader you think is swell that doesn't work on some web page.
Wow! Welcome to the Internet 2009.
Hardly news.
This article was a complete waste of your time. In fact, it was a waste of my time even responding to it.
And why on earth have bothered writing this drivel?
Why complain that this isn't news, then complain about responding to the article? Are you helpless? Just close your tab and read something else, dumbass...
Intel's Evil like M$ now!
I do agree that this isn't very news worthy, but don't diss the software, from the window icon it's Mozilla's Thunderbird (email client) which has been downloaded and used millions of times over.
its now news worthy but someone has to shout I suppose. and yes if Intel did though this through this should have tested against.
How petty and insecure M$ and Intel must be feeling to resort to such silliness as sending email unreadable to everything except Outlook
Hi,
use the properties to look for any ingredience at all.
May be its empty at all,
just to make you keen
on a slaughter.
kalkzone
Moblin is neither a major linux competitor nor a distro.
It remains in the hopeware drawer.
View -- Message Body As -- Original HTML
You have it set up on Plain Text.
Intel is hardly the only email that wont show up for you correctly Mr. Author.
I hit the site and sent myself a press release just fine. Received and viewed with Thunderbird. Would you like a screen shot?
Go ahead and email me if you need any more tech support.
email itself prooves kinda hoax. whats this childish account. Is intel breaking its own news !?! their newswebsite and newschannel show also broadcast this.
newswire@intel !?!?!? ... it should be from say LegalAid@intel.com
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/22/
Assuming Intel was the sender of this mail message...
If this is a case of a problem with an HTML-encoded mail message, then it is Intel's fault!
If Intel wants to get a message out, then it is their responsibility to ensure that the message can be read, not the receiver's responsibility. The most common standard is plain ASCII text, without any encoding. Every SMTP/POP/IMAP based e-mail software can handle that.
HTML-encoding of mail messages is only good for phishing, distribution of malware, and exposure of the sender's attitude and lack of security awareness.
If Intel had chosen to send a message in Chinese or Klingonese to an English speaking audience, then even people like Rik would have understood the problem.
Same old stuff...
Every time Intel thinks AMD's newest offering is going to pound on an Intel product the cry foul.
Email not displaying for you? RTFM....