Intel's consent decree: Intel will be changed  Posted by Rob
Enderle In reading through the Intel Consent Decree I’m reminded
of both the years I spent interpreting and writing documents
like this and how glad I am they are past me.  Legal agreements,
as an unfortunate side effect of what they need to accomplish,
are virtually impossible to interpret with a high degree of
accuracy and this one is no exception.  Intel’s Consent Decree:
Intel Will Be ChangedHowever, we can make some reasonably
reliable guesses about how it will work.  Let’s cover both why
agreements of this type are misleading and the likely results
that will come out of this one.   Why Contracts like Consent
Decrees Are Misleading The problem resides in the nature of this
being a complex agreement between two parties with vastly
different backgrounds and goals coupled with a third enforcement
element that typically had no part in the creation process and
yet must interpret the result.  In this case you have a contract
that defines Intel behavi