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by nop 6237 days ago
It's only dirty if Intel isn't guilty but AMD is somehow influencing the ruling against Intels favor. Assuming AMD is indeed doing that, it's still only the corporate version of reporting a crime to the police.
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We live in a messy world where regulators often have wide discretion and politically-driven motivations. Guilt or innocence in a matter like this is on a completely different plane from guilt or innocence in a murder trial. Even if we had perfect information about the past, reasonable people could debate endlessly about whether the sum of actions constituted "anti-competitive" behavior (which is banned) rather than just simple competition (which is encouraged, as opposed to, say, collusion).
Since "anti-trust" is bad law, anyone who files complaints about it is "dirty".