Re:AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched an...
by mtgx on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:05PM
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Good thing most servers use Linux and other open source software. I actually read something recently that Microsoft almost got in trouble during the antitrust days for trying to sell Windows licenses "per processor." They seem to be doing exactly that. I guess they've gotten bolder since the governments stopped monitoring them closely.
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Re:AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched an...
by Tuna-Fish on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:40PM
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The rules are different depending on whether you have a dominant market position or not. Microsoft clearly does not have a dominant market position on server hardware, so they can use "creative" licensing there.