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This seems like someone testing the waters. I fear as they fall further behind the behaviour may become more desperate.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
How do you gaffe this bad? How is someone that incompetent in the decision making loop? Some random engineer creating the ucode or uploading it to the web doesn't come up with this kind of idea to change license language. These are edicts from management. I'd love for that conversation to leak in full.
Such EULA clauses need to be put to the test and overturned for the anti-consumer monopolistic garbage they are.
But at the end of the day who would have given a shit about the license on a cpu? It would have been ignored.
But at the end of the day who would have given a shit about the license on a cpu? It would have been ignored.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw a tweet somewhere (IIRC in the anandtech sidebar, unfortunately I'm not finding it right now) where the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode which leaked into the final version.
> the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode I don't see how this changes anything at all.
If they contract testing of the beta to a 3rd party, they don't want them running benchmarks because if they get released, news organizations will jump on it, broadcasting the performance hit.
This matters because when later beta versions improve performance, the news about the improved performance doesn't spread nearly as much. Even if it does, the first impression sticks, and there's nothing Intel will be able to do about it.
So has anyone broken the currently EULA and published benchmarks with the new microcode updates anyway?
How do you gaffe this bad? How is someone that incompetent in the decision making loop? Some random engineer creating the ucode or uploading it to the web doesn't come up with this kind of idea to change license language. These are edicts from management. I'd love for that conversation to leak in full.
I saw a tweet somewhere (IIRC in the anandtech sidebar, unfortunately I'm not finding it right now) where the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode which leaked into the final version.