[IntelThrowaway1]

The thing that gets me about Intel's culture, as someone who worked there, was that Intel as an organisation was completely unable to actually accept they'd done anything wrong. Ever.

There are lots of cases where Intel has either screwed up or done things that were unarguably anti-competitive. It happens at every company, I don't like Uber, but I'm not going to blame Uber today for the fuckery that Kalanick got up to.

In each case you could ask the Intel HR, or Intel senior management what they thought about it and it was never Intel's fault. The answers to any questions about this sort of stuff would be full of pettifogging, passsive voice, and legalese. The result was the internal culture was an extremely low trust environment since you knew people were willing to be transparantly intellectually dishonest to further their careers. I haven't been there since Gelsinger arrived but I hope that changes, I wonder how much it can change in the legal environment we're in.

[kmeisthax]

I don't think this is dishonesty - it's auteur mentality. In Intel's view, AMD was a second-source vendor that went rogue, and gets to free-ride on their patents because Intel couldn't be arsed to extend x86 to 64-bit. If they had their way, they'd own the x86 ISA interface and all their competition would be incompatible architectures that you have to recompile for. Crippling AMD processors with their C compiler wasn't dishonest, it was DRM to protect their """intellectual property"""[0].

Gelsinger was the head designer on the 486, so he was around during the time when Intel was obsessed with keeping competition out of their ISA and probably has a case of auteur mentality, too.

[0] In case you couldn't tell, I really hate this word. The underlying concepts are, at best, necessary evils.

[ClumsyPilot]

> In Intel's view, AMD was a second-source vendor that went rogue, and gets to free-ride

In Russia's view Ukraine is a breakaway province that was getting a free ride from all the transit gas fees and must be brought to heel.

In medieval mentality women are property

What i mean is, its really a tool to justify why your dishonest behaviour is okay