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I was responding to the tone of the previous post, not attempting to predict how Dell will testify, if it comes to that. My guess is that they will try their best to just stay out of the fight, but given some of the "evidence" that will be hard to do.

What I was describing is what I see as a fairly pervasive "revisionist history" viewpoint within Dell - it is a lot easier for those at Dell who were near the top in 2002-2006 to find something other than management incompetence to blame for Dell's decline. If (as I would assume) that attitude is reflected in ex post facto email, you no longer have the broad issue of Dell's relationship with Intel, you have the much narrower issue of some exec explaing why he said what, even if it is not germane to the case. I would think that internal politics would trump the need to be best friends with Intel.

I also agree with Duke - a strong Intel and a withering AMD is not the issue that I would want to see raised if I were on Intel's legal or PR team.