At 10:06 5/06/98 -0500, Mike the guru wrote:
>i concur. the case has grown out of a suit between Intel and Intergraph,
>in which Intel refused to let Intergraph see technical documents because
>they weren't playing ball the way Intel thought they should. the court
>decided that without those documents, Intergraph could not remain
>competetive, nor could Intergraph develop a viable competetive technology
>without access to the same documents.
>
>yes, Intel allows some companies to compete in certain market sectors.
>but they've also tried to lock companies out of the market entirely by
>witholding information, and the courts don't like that.
Let's put it this way. Why is it, do you think, that IBM doesn't make a
PowerPC line of desktop pc's? hmmm?
franko
Frank Lee, Information Architect.
Member: Aust. DM Assoc., Market Research Soc. of Aust., Web Conslts Assoc.,
HTML Writers Guild, Internet Professionals Association. Associate, Aust.
Marketing Inst.
Interactive Strategist, IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired World
Consulting.
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