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4. This is one person (or a small group) at Intel who considers it the right thing to do. Maybe?

• nitrogen 6y ago
  Or 5. they want to stave off another unfair competition complaint.
• nordsieck 6y ago
  > 4. This is one person (or a small group) at Intel who considers it the right thing to do. > Maybe? I guess it depends on where you work. Most places would probably fire someone who "took the initiative" to improve a competitor's product on company time.
  • cowsandmilk 6y ago
    Not on company time, but after leaving intel, some former employees added ARM support to ispc[0]. In the years since then, current Intel employees have maintained and even expanded the ARM support and Intel’s website even mentions it now[1]. [0] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective.html https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective.ht... [1] https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/intel-ispc-in-unreal-engine-4-a-peek-behind-the-curtain https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/intel-ispc-in-unreal-engi...