Indirect branch tracking for Intel CPUs

Posted Apr 11, 2022 15:14 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Indirect branch tracking for Intel CPUs by immibis
Parent article: Indirect branch tracking for Intel CPUs

> Cool, then dynamic linking does not create a derivative work and the GPL is pointless. Microsoft and Amazon are free to take away your software freedom as long as the open source components are in separate files.

I think Microsoft would vastly prefer the opposite to be true, given that they could've sued Wine users out of existence for using their ABIs if it were.