To be pedant - this is HN after all - market segmentation is a business policy and relates to how a business is run. The word politics is used correctly here bu

To be pedant - this is HN after all - market segmentation is a business policy and relates to how a business is run. The word politics is used correctly here but in a somewhat old fashioned way. Policies would probably be more usual. Linus indeed bemoans that the industry is using ECC as a differentiating factor.