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Intel taking a page from the Oracle playbook and not allowing benchmarks on (some) of their systems: https://perens.com/2018/08/22/new-intel-microcode-license-restriction-is-not-acceptable/ …pic.twitter.com/TpfnEUL3Yw
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One of the many delightful absurdities of this is that you can't comply with the terms of Intel's latest security patch if you continue to have public performance regression tests or any kind of nightly/CI/regular benchmark.
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even if you don't publish those results but only use them internally?
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Argh, English :-(. I meant for "public" to apply to the rest of the sentence...
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So, for all practical purposes Intel did not release a security patch.
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I'm not sure how enforceable such license clauses really are in various jurisdictions… (unless they are also prepared to refund all those broken CPUs maybe?).
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I'm sure Intel would love to go after all those testers, surely the best way to lose all the customers.
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apparently they fixed this issue:https://twitter.com/imadsousou/status/1032680311753072640 …
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