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Unethical is not bad,illegal is bad. Unethical is also the IDF pamphlets. AMD has its history of unethical too. They just havent traversed the same path of illegalities yet.
Vern, it may be a different life experience, being older, or only just being influenced by different folks, but unethical has always been "bad" (that is undesirable and a fault) since as long as I can remember. I wonder if you only just switched your view to "unethical is not bad". Just looking at that, doesn't it make you do a double take? Sometimes it's possible that a group of people will lead themselves into rather dispicable behaviour, over time. History has a lot of examples. One of the things that happens is that words take on new meaning.
All that aside, I wouldn't say Intel was unethical (since I use to word to denote actually evil actions). Instead I'd say it simply tried to prevent competition, instead of allowing it. If you made a product and your competitor went to all the re-sellers and paid them kickbacks to sell either none or very small amounts of your product, with non-disclosure agreements, you'd think of them as....______?
I supposed I'd say cowards and liers, etc. But I couldn't call them unethical by my use of words. Unethical is still bad here in this house.
But that was then for Intel (2005, etc). Now Intel is on top for the moment, and doesn't need to do it, and has a spotlight on them, etc.
But....having been in business actually, my personal subjective reaction is I'd rather buy at a significant cost disadvantage to avoid the cowardly lying company. I just don't want to do business with them.
That's at the same time that I admire their products, their great engineering, and the beneficial effects of their competion when I do buy. So I like Intel, while I will not do business with them.
Some folks here would have it that I'm a bad person in some way because I state and have a personal preference that isn't their own, or isn't based on the same criteria as theirs. But "Freedom" is the opposite of this. Finally, some try to smear those who have different opinions, and that is indeed cowardly and lying both, isn't it?
Don't be afraid of such people, for your own self-respect, I say!