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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by pwg on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:32PM (#17829080)
That language is likely derived from a path similar to this:

"Marketing department" -- We are sick of seeing the world complain that our patches to these problems reduce performance by X percent. Hey "Legal Dept", can anything be done about that?

"Legal Dept" -- We will see what we can do...

Result, a new clause appears in the license file that says "no bench-marking".

With no one in the path ever having heard of the Streisand effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) (yes, Streisand effect is not a perfect fit here, but the 'publicity' part of the effect is what in fact has occurred).

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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by Aloha on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#17829305)
I suspect its something more banal.

I believe intel does distribute test/beta microcode to certain partners, and likely security researchers, this kind of statement is something you would put in a beta version, I wonder if someone simply used the wrong license file when they deployed this to the website.

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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by dman on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:02PM (#17830271)
This story has been out for days, if such a thing was at play Intel would have put out a statement by now.
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by Aloha on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:27PM (#17831448)
Days is about right for a large company to respond
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by babypuncher on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:37PM (#17830501)
I refuse to believe the entire marketing department is dense enough not to see how that would backfire.
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by cbhl on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:41PM (#17830528)
Does it really take the entire marketing department for the story to play out this way? It just takes one marketing person to send one email to the right one lawyer in legal, right?
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by mywittyname on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#17830509)
Legal probably thought they could silently issue C&D letters to offending sites and bully compliance.
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by dman on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:58PM (#17830665)
Looks like marketing department is running with an acting part time head - https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2018/05/...
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