Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:21:03 -0500 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
| |
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Sean Fao wrote: > >>Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>>Now, I'm not above complaining about Intel (in fact, the Intel people seem >>>to often think I hate them because I'm apparently the only person who gets >>>quoted who complains about bad decisions publicly), but at least I try to >>>avoid complaining before-the-fact ;) >>> >> >>It must come with the territory ;-). Your message has already made it to >>Slashdot so I'm sure this time will be no different. > > > Yeah, and that's unfair to Intel. They've done the right thing > technically, and I applaud them for that, but their marketing people are > pricks. > > Everybody else is "Intel-compatible" when they make x86 chips. Intel is > apparently a bit too used to _not_ saying "AMD-compatible". > > Oh, well. The marketing people are probably proud of their "branding", and > screw the confusion.
I've been reading some people's comments relating to this, and it reflects a glimmer of an idea that occurred to me initially. To begin with, I completely agree that it was unethical for Intel to imply that this was their innovation, giving no credit to AMD. It was wrong, and they should be ashamed.
On the other hand, I don't see how Intel's marketing department could possibly justify to themselves doing "the right thing". In this case, doing the right thing would be very bad for business, because giving proper credit would be like saying, (to paraphrase one commenter on osnews) "Well... we're behind the times, so we had to copy AMD's ideas, so there's little point in buying from us, because we didn't really do anything interesting, so you might as well give your business to AMD instead. They're smarter than us."
Intel, being an organization driven by marketing and image, really CANNOT "do the right thing" without some kind of penalty that they would find unacceptable. Mind you, if Intel were driven by _performance_ and _superior_products_, rather than marketing, things would be a lot different. That is to say, Intel's MUCH BIGGER sin is putting marketing ahead of technical merit. (Hmmm, seems to me I've seen this sort of attitude elsewhere in the wintel industry.)
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |