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Can I publish benchmarks of 7zip, The Witcher 3 and OpenGPG from yesterday and tomorrow (after Intel patch, which was patched coincidentally)?
by akerro 8y ago
Can I publish benchmarks of 7zip, The Witcher 3 and OpenGPG from yesterday and tomorrow (after Intel patch, which was patched coincidentally)?
- shakna 8y ago> (v) publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results. This seems to exclude any benchmark that may be affected by the Software's performance... Which means any CPU benchmark. There is some play in the wording... And I'm taking the least favourable interpretation. But yeah... Seems like Intel have said no benchmarking, full stop.
- mcv 8y ago> Seems like Intel have said no benchmarking, full stop. That doesn't mean it's enforceable. Companies say silly things all the time.
- shakna 8y agoAbsolutely. If they tried to uphold that least-favourable interpretation, then I would be reaching for anti-competitive laws, and other consumer protections, and perhaps even contract law as they say downloading the software, so you can see the license, is binding. It seems difficult to have a legal argument that it should be binding at all.
- aneutron 8y agoThis is why it just sounded stupid to me when I read the headline. The CPU IS the computer, sure I won't run Cinebench, but I'll want to run my web browser, and there are things called browser benchmarks because I want to know if Chrome is better than Firefox, coincidentally running older versions of the software on older machines. Will they sue me ?
- akerro 8y ago>Will they sue me ? Are you in US? If the answer is yes, I'm happy to publish the results for you on my blog where they won't reach me.