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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by wmf on Saturday September 18, 2010 @07:05PM (#1705159)
If you buy a crippled processor and hack it, I'd guess that Intel has no cause to sue you, precisely because you own that processor. But they don't have to make it easy to hack.
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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by noarchy on Saturday September 18, 2010 @10:08PM (#1705424)
Until Intel distributes a EULA with the processor. If the courts will hold up the validity of a software EULA, why not one that applies to hardware?

...not that I think that this is an agreeable situation. But I am hardly surprised to see things evolve in that direction.

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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by JBiserkov on Sunday September 19, 2010 @10:34AM (#1706201)
>Until Intel distributes a EULA with the processor. ... written with a very tiny font in silicon.
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