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[News] [SOT] More Information on Wintel's Sheer Monopoly Abuse

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] More Information on Wintel's Sheer Monopoly Abuse
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:04:13 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Intel says responds to EU antitrust charges

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| The Commission is the EU's antitrust watchdog and has powers to fine 
| companies up to 10 percent of their global annual revenues for competition 
| abuses.  
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL0724106520080107?rpc=44

Intel asks for hearing over antitrust concerns

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| The agency said Intel offered "substantial rebates" to manufacturers on 
| condition that they obtain most, if not all, of their CPU requirements from 
| Intel.  
| 
| The agency also accused Intel of paying manufacturers to either delay or 
| cancel the launch of AMD-based products. In competitive bids against AMD for 
| strategic customers in the server market, Intel also "has offered CPUs on 
| average below cost," the commission said.   
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/intel-sends-formal-response-eus/story.aspx?guid=%7B2177C46C%2D35D9%2D41D7%2D8E71%2DEF4D4046B144%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/3y2b2g


Yesterday:

Intel to finally cough up EC anti-trust furball

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| In other Intel news, Reuters also reports today that the firm's Chinese 
| president Wee Theng Tan has resigned, citing "personal reasons". 
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/07/intel_eu_antitrust_response/


Related:

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| In 2005, a unit of Shenzhen Donjin countersued, saying Intel engaged
| in monopolistic practices.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070514/china_intel_settlement.html?.v=7


Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top

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| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted 
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
| 
| [...]
| 
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/


EC says Intel influenced bids for computer projects

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| The third type of allegation, however, was new, and sounded like a variety of 
| predatory pricing. “In the context of bids against AMD-based products for 
| strategic customers in the server segment of the market,” the commission 
| press release said, “Intel has offered CPUs on average below cost.”   
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http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.com/2007/08/03/ec-says-intel-influenced-bids-for-computer-projects/


Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself" 

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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious 
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733


AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses'

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| In 2005, after the Japan Fair Trade Commission found Intel guilty of 
| offering illegal rebates to Japanese PC makers, AMD filed an anti-trust 
| suit against its competitor in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. The 
| case has not been decided.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/amd_ceo_condemns_intel_abuses/


AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case

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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352


Video: Henri Richard comes out swinging at Intel during AMD press conference

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| [AMD's Henri Richard:] "I am sick and tired of being pushed around
| by a competitor that doesn't respect the rules of fair and open
| competition."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=363


Testing Laboratory Challenges Intel Power Efficiency Claim

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| Intel's recent claim of power efficiency superiority over AMD is being 
| challenged by Neal Nelson & Associates, an independent Chicago area computer 
| testing firm.  
|
| [...]
|
| The test is a client server benchmark where world wide web transactions are 
| processed against a server configured with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from 
| Novell, the Apache2 web server software and the MySQL relational database.  
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11054/testing-laboratory-challenges-intel-power-efficiency-claim


Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ

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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo


Lenovo got financial help from Intel, claim 

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| Journalists on the title said Lenovo is being paid a "pretty
| penny" from Intel to use its chips.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670


Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC

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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’ 
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each 
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall 
| Street Journal.   
| 
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in 
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull 
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.  
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
| 
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to 
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics 
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.  
| 
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth 
| out about Intels tactics. 
| 
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then 
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss. 
| 
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to 
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux. 
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124

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