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Hate to take the other side on this one but I remember reading another interpretation. The Court said that because the alleged actions did not constitute a violation of the Anti-Trust act, Intergraph could not use the charge of Monopoly in this case. It did not say Intel wasn't a Monopoly, just that that argument didn't apply here.

Maybe so, But the point I was making, was that the Judge was specific on striking down each of Intergraph's Monopoly claims individually. Intergraph was ruled not to be a competitor of intel, and therefore couldn't claim monopolistic practices by intel under Sherman.

The same ruling would seem to apply to motherboard makers. While intel makes motherboards, they are not a motherboard maker, they are a chip manufacturer. So once again I don't think it will be possible to make the claim that intel is strong arming Motherboard Manufacturers, on Opteron MB's, and that doing so is a monopolist tactic. The reversal of the Injunction itself, set precedent that strong arm tactics by themselves are not monopolistic.

If the Inquirer is trying to get more advertising money by printing FUD and sensationalism, then I guess they've already succeeded, at least around here. But if the MB makers are going to try and take intel to court on this one and succeed, then they better come up with a different charge. That's all I'm saying.

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P.S.- Or as an alternative I guess they can run off to the EU Courts like Intergraph, and Jerry "I'm Bill Gates Bitch" Sanders did.