Except it wasn't a contract, it was a sample server sent as a sales pitch. If somebody is trying to get your business and sends you a machine that purposefully

Except it wasn't a contract, it was a sample server sent as a sales pitch. If somebody is trying to get your business and sends you a machine that purposefully checks for your flagship product, so that that machine can treat it like a second-class citizen, you probably aren't going to decide to give them your business.