Soleron on 13 May 2009
| Faxanadu said: Oh please. Marketplace has rules. Company breaks rules. Marketplace then imposes a fine to punish company. You rather want they cut the company off the market? |
I'd like to see the x86 patents opened up instead of a fine. Currently all x86 makers have to have a cross-license agreement with Intel, which is skewed towards Intel holding all of the cards (e.g. AMD is forbidden to outsource manufacturing, sell out to another company, or be socket-compatible with Intel). So 99% of the consumer CPU market depends on Intel's permission to exist. That's a monopoly.
