AMD Chief Admits Being Ignorant Stooge
from the hey,-you-write-the-headlines,-then dept.
Under cross-examination as part of the ongoing antitrust proceedings between Microsoft and the nine holdout states, Advanced Micro Devices CEO W.J. “Jerry” Sanders III admitted yesterday that he had not actually read either of the proposed settlements (either the original wrist-slap from dubya’s emasculated Justice Department, or the ensuing tougher one from the nine states) before trashing the latter in court. Instead, his testimony was based solely on a phone call he had with Bill Gates, in which the Microsoft chairman told him the states’ plan was “crazy”. Sanders explained that during the same call Gates had agreed to announce Microsoft support for AMD’s next-generation microchip, which, Sanders testified, “really gave me a hard-on. I mean, this is Microsoft we’re talking about. I’d sell my soul for less than that. Already have, actually.”
May 3rd, 2004 at 3:39 pm
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