AMD Calls on Microsoft for Intel Antitrust Case 84
Rob writes "As part of its ongoing antitrust case against its chief rival Intel Corp, AMD said it had subpoenaed Microsoft Corp for documents pertaining to
its case." From the article: "AMD filed subpoenas with 32 companies, asking them to retain and forward documentation that may pertain to the lawsuit, including computer companies, microprocessor distributors, and electronics retailers. Most of these companies agreed to comply with AMD's requests, including Acer, Gateway, Lenovo, NEC, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tech Data Corp., and Circuit City. The only firm that refused to cooperate with AMD in any capacity was Toshiba, although others have been slow to respond."
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AMD has great products, and they are succeeding in the marketplace. A lawsuit just seems to come from jealousy. Why not spend their efforts competing with better products?
I know everyone is thinking about things like Intel's market control. But AMD is big enough to stand on its own feet and just keep going.
A nice, clear-cut lawsuit that acheives a real remedy can be healthy for a company, and is sometimes very necessary. But this type of litigious behavior can only corrupt. And that will destroy the innovation at AMD.
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Oh well, never too fond of either companies business practices.
I don't know which hi-tech corporate quarrel I like best, there are so many that evoke such varied emotional responses.
AMD vs. Intel, great I've always been a fan of the underdog, but AMD has had their day in the sun coming for a long time.
I do however find it ironic that Microsoft and Intel are all slings and arrows these days.. As both companies still depend on each-other to a degree.
One one hand it's Better than a soap opera, like 2 drunk hillbilly brothers shooting at each-ther over who gets the last lucky lager. Or ex-lovers shooting the evil eye at eachother from across the technical landscape. Or suicidal siamese twins... It's funny sad, scary, all at the same time, and who cares which one wins, because, it's just fun to watch, even if the action is a bit slow.
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Microsoft also has a lot of reasons to not cooperate with AMD. They work practically side-by-side with OpenSuSE and do all sorts of kernel optimization for their hardware with Linux.
Microsoft doesn't have too many friends these days.