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- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Slime lives: Intel's latest tactic against clones
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.231940.14641@fasttech.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:19:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.170852.10035@irscscm.UUCP> <mg.721407429@elan>
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- Organization: Fast Technology
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- In <mg.721407429@elan> mg@elan (Michael Golan) writes:
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- >rshwake@irscscm.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
- >>Excerpted from InfoWorld's _At_Deadline_ column (November 12, 1992):
- >> using clone chips would be affected. The proposed royalty rates
- >> would be approximately 20 percent of the cost of the clone processor
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- >Wow, Intel has big balls. huge. 20% for the trivial (and stupid) seg:ofs.
-
- Yes. Actions like this give sleaze an entirely new meaning. Intel hasn't been
- able to legally succeed in preventing the entry of competitors, so they are
- now attempting to intimidate their customers.
-
- Wouldn't 20% be a high but not entirely unreasonable royalty for a COMPLETE
- second source license agreement?
-
- Intel is becoming more and more irrational, paranoid, and hysterical in their
- responses to any and all competition. Hmmm. Where have we seen this sort of
- thing recently? Are we sure Ross Perot isn't secretly running things there?
-