> However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone. AMD was chosen by Intel and IBM as seco

> However, author completely glosses over the fact that AMD reverse-engineered Intel's product and released it's clone. AMD was chosen by Intel and IBM as second source for 8088 processors, and entered a decade-long patent sharing agreement. How shockingly immoral, indeed. > quite possibly, illegal Intel tried to sue them when the agreement ran out. The courts deemed it otherwise – clean room reimplementations are neither illegal nor particularly immoral.