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Paul Murphy points to an interesting conslusion from the de Raadt C2D rant:

[...] and maintaining a loud silence on the key issue: specifically that most of the problems de Raadt cites seem to have come from Intel’s decision to shoe-horn two or more cores designed to operate independently into multi-core packaging without doing a fundamental redesign first.

The problem: John and Jane Doe aren´t interested in good designed and balanced systems and a hackers don´t have to hassle with some obscure CPU bugs as long the both click on every attachment available without thinking. At the end, the average user isn´t interested in system, that´s fast for his or her applications, he or she buys system that performs good in some benchmarks which seldomly match with the workload of the user. But: As John and Jane Doe represents most of the market, Intel can get way with such shoe-horning tactics.

There is an interesting discussion under way at OSnews about the answer of Simon Phipps to de Raadts accusations, that Sun speaks with two tongues. The discussion is surprisingly pro-SUN (at least up to comment #52). And as far as i remember, the points summarized by Simon were communicated to de Raadt on several occassions: You can´t give away documentation you don´t really have or your´re not allowed to give away due to licensing agreements.