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intel paid more than 10M to lawyers so they could debate on legalities of the law instead of the intent of the law, hence not having to fix the problem.

they are not worried about fines. fines are cheap for those companies. they are worried about market control.

they are what they are thanks to phoenix reverse engineering IBM bios and the rise of the generic PC market. Now they fear anyone that can enter the market as easily as they entered and hope to not make the same mistake IBM did.



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