Intel security patch licence barring benchmarking withdrawn following Bruce Perens' criticism

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Intel embarrassed into licence climbdown

Intel has withdrawn a clause in the licence for a security patch issued this week following complaints led by open source luminary Bruce Perens.  The clause had forbidden Windows 10 users from p...

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