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I think there'd need to be both regulation and enforcement in order to make that work out. If you consider 1. the game-theoretic problem that the vendors have (specifically the prisoner's dilemma), and 2. the fact that many of them seem to operate on smaller margins and 3. certainly do not have the benefit of operating from monopoly that Intel had, it may be that accepting the bribes is the way to go. Are you going to wait 10, 20, maybe 30 years for some government to finally step in on your competitors that accepted the bribes?


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