> ...it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make workarounds for the hardware's design flaw Free Software projects don't neces

> ...it was mitigated by OS / Software vendors that had to spend the time to make workarounds for the hardware's design flaw Free Software projects don't necessarily work like this. It's possible for CPU manufacturers to have taken the lead in the work in Linux, for example. Even just helping (which they have clearly done) is more of a nod than just a nod.