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Perhaps having plausible deniability that they didn't acquire a competitor just to kill it was worth that extra hundred million?
by ithkuil 3y ago
Perhaps having plausible deniability that they didn't acquire a competitor just to kill it was worth that extra hundred million?
- lisper 3y agoWhy on earth should Intel care about having plausible deniability about that? Buying a company in order to kill it is not illegal. It isn't even considered unethical except by a few utopian idealists. It's a common and accepted practice in the business world.
- crote 3y agoAntitrust laws are a thing, you know. Buying out your competition in order to get rid of them is indeed illegal, once you get big enough.
- meepmorp 3y agoYou get rid of your competition either way, though - either the competing products are now part of your offerings, or they're no longer sold. Either situation leads to the same level of reduced competition.