The OP is right. Pentium D was a single generation in which Intel offering was worse that Athlon 64 X2 . But Intel quickly shifted to Core 2 Duo architecture and it was much better than AMD.
Even the objective of patients was to disincentivize trade secrets by allowing limited-time monopoly and thereby making knowledge public without destroying the economic incentives.
The whole objective of copyright is to encourage dissemination of knowledge. The idea originally was that by allowing authors some exclusivity over their creations for some years, there would be economic incentives to produce various technical, cultural works. The artificial monopoly is a means to an end, not an end to itself.
It fucking autoruns by default on my Linux machine and eventually the only way to prevent it from not auto-running is to remove it. I avoid teams now whenever possible and use a browser session if forced to use teams.
I was failing badly in my computer architecture courses. Received a 5% score in one of the mid-terms. Switched from the recommended book to Andrew's book and did nothing apart from read it everyday for 2 hours. Received 100% in the final. Such an amazingly approachable book. :-)