Heck Intel stole technology from Digital and got away with it. I doubt they’ll actually pay any of this $$. Paying the EU isn’t a good thing IMO anyway.
These EU pirates are shaking down U.S. companies for billions, while the Somali pirates only get millions. Our companies should boycott Europe.
A non-crime. Intel made prices lower to consumers and that is bad?
The EU is little different from any other organized crime syndicate - they run their “protection rackets” on a massive scale...
I have an AMD (Quad Core, 687GB - or something really geeky) in this pc and could have had the latest Intel (Pentium IX or something) for the same price. It was my choice -- click 'a' or 'b', have it made, then shipped.
The looting continues ...
AMD won’t see a cent. Every penny of this will go into federal coffers to fund Chairman Obama’s utopia. He is in deep doo-doo in terms of paying for everything since it looks like cap and trade has been deep-sixed.
This is what the US will look like soon if the Zero gets his way.
Computers and computer chips produce ozone during operation.
Ozone has therapeutic uses.
Therefore, computers and computer chips can be classified as a drug.
The FDA should simply settle this by taking over all of the computer industry like it is going after cherrios.
Though a much different principle is taught, this analogy connotes a similar theme to that in "the fallacy of the broken window" (Bastiat). Namely, that some economists speak of economic benefit being derived via the actions of a young boy who breaks a window (because the owner of the window must then pay the glazier for a repair, which presumably has a "stimulative" effect upon the local economy - neglecting the potential uses the owner would have put that money toward in the absence of the accident), but most universally identify it to be a crime if the glazier had in turn paid the young boy a small fee to break the window in the first place.
This sort of shakedown of large companies is in America’s future, too.
0bama has recently promised to strengthen “anti-trust” laws and use them to go after big corporations and technology leaders like Intel.
The Dark Ages are approaching.
I guess Moore’s Law will finally be broken.
I’m not comletely familiar with the details of this case, but I’m kind of amazed that the EU can take money from a US company so easily. Where will it stop? The US should find BMW in violation of our laws and order them to pay 2Billion.
And so the games begin.
EU-rope attacks another US company and our government does nothing.
Why don’t we fight back against this BS?
For those of you who have read or are reading Atlas Shrugged, can you say, "Directive 10-289"???
Insanity!