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AMD Files Suit Against Intel (eWeek)AMD Files Suit Against Intel (eWeek)Posted Jun 30, 2005 13:58 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)In reply to: AMD Files Suit Against Intel (eWeek) by emkey Parent article: AMD Files Suit Against Intel (eWeek)
Microsoft was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice under Clinton, and was convicted, then "settled" with the Bush DoJ for a slap on the wrist (or perhaps on the back).
This is very different. Here AMD is suing Intel, and the DoJ has nothing to do with it. The better parallel is that when companies sued Microsoft for antitrust damages, they won/settled those suits at a cost to Microsoft of $billions (including the Sun suit).
With the evidence they have, I'd say AMD has a good shot at this, although it will take a very long time. Likewise, RedHat, Novell, Mandriva or Ubuntu (or IBM?) can go after Microsoft and shut down their sweetheart deals with OEMs!
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