Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: > El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and > Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode > updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to > both Debian and mirror sites if the end user violates certain new > restrictions regarding benchmarking. Debian has chosen not to play. > > [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/intel_cpu_patch_licence/
Rant opened: /me prays for the end of proprietary CPUs. This closed-down proprietary development model of CPUs just does not fly anymore. Its clear that Intel does not act in the best interest of their customers. Actually one of the reasons I am still with a ThinkPad T520, while I have been offered a new laptop at work several times, is that I just do not like to trigger buying a CPU that I know is crap from a security point of view. Plus even more / newer Intel Management Engine. Intel Boot Guard and other crap Intel came up with. Stop the crap. Now. I hope RISC-V will continue to go a different route and that at some day there will be laptops with RISC-V. I´d order one even if the CPU would be no faster than the Sandybridge i5 in this ThinkPad T520. Speed over quality. – Stop it already. Rant closed. Ciao, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
