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I agree that 12 month embargoes are stupid. I know that there are people, including FreeBSD people, who have been vigorously encouraging Intel to be more reaso

I agree that 12 month embargoes are stupid. I know that there are people, including FreeBSD people, who have been vigorously encouraging Intel to be more reasonable about how such issues are handled. I played a small role in that after Theo announced the Lazy FPU issue, by writing exploit code and telling Intel (via the FreeBSD people in the embargo) "shorten the embargo or else".

busterarm 8y ago
Given how much Intel likes to throw their weight around wrt embargo terms well past the point of being unreasonable, maybe it's a good thing that someone holds a gun to their head every once in a while. If you want to lead market in mission-critical product, there's a certain amount of responsibility that you have to your customers and more than once Intel has lost sight of that.