TheMailMan78
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Bta your logic is 100% correct. In a perfectly functioning American society. Honestly I really wish you were right too. However it simply doesn't work this way. The U.S. government is dominated with knee jerk reactions now. Ill give you a good example. A while back during the super bowl Janet Jackson showed her nipple. A 3 second shot of a nipple with a pasty on it. The FCC flipped out. Within a month 2 major DJs were ripped off the air and everyone was afraid to say anything. Millions of dollars worth of fines were handed out for just saying the word ass on the air. All of this happened because of a 3 second nipple shot. It was sad and pathetic.Like I said, if American laws didn't prohibit the practice Intel has been penalised of in the EU, the investigation would not have commenced in the first place. The company will face a trial only once the investigations are complete. The fact that an investigation by a federal agency such as USFTC was launched into this, shows that your law disallows Intel's practices too, regardless of what happens in the courtroom or what's its outcome. In the US, nobody knows better than USFTC about what's legal and what's not when it comes to businesses. So again, Intel being charged under your law, or slipping/buying its way out of the case, becomes immaterial.
So now we have the USFTC and its suspicion of Intel. I say suspicion because I haven't heard of any formal charges yet from the USFTC. After Enron and all the other crap that has been going on in the U.S. market this screams knee jerk reaction. Witch hunts have become a favorite pastime of our government lately. Of course the USFTC is going to investigate Intel after the EU "fined" them. I'm surprised we haven't read of any charges yet. Like I said, there's blood in the water.
Oh no its not profit. Its "justice".How did Intel hurt (monetarily) the EU , Japan or any other country? AMD was the one who lost sales. So why should a country or union be able to profit from Intel's alleged inappropriate business transactions?
I guess by forcing you mean they had guns to thier children's heads? I ask because thats much more likely to happen than for HP and Dell not to own phones. One phone call to the USFTC would have brought this to a halt. But you know why they didn't call? Because their legal departments at the time saw nothing wrong with what Intel was doing and everyone made a killing. Please there are no victims in this case but Intel.You have to think trough the economics of the whole thing: Intel is in a dominant position on the market. They offer exclusivity rebates - if the retailer isn't going for it, he gets a huge cost/price disadvantage and obviously loses a lot of business (as Intel chips dominate the market) to his competitors, who go for the rebates. This is potentially a bankrupt case for him.
So because Intel is dominant player, they are in fact forcing the retailers to accept these rebates, otherwise they will suffer huge losses and maybe go out of business.
Your analogy doesn't account for the fact, that Intel essentially did force the retailers to accept the rebates, so applied to your analogy that would be pointing a gun at someone's head and telling him to shoot the other guy.
It is indeed childish to explain Intel's malpractices by the capitalistic system. It is not a matter of capitalism vs. socialism. It is a case of illegal vs. legal. You know capitalist societies have laws too.