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Linus vs Intel
Linus Torvalds blasts Intel for not supporting ECC memory.
Linus Torvalds, the outspoken creator of Linux, has taken aim at Intel once again, this time in a forum post (http://bit.ly/LXF273Linus) where he accuses the chip maker of preventing error correction code (ECC) memory from becoming widely supported on consumer platforms, stating that “ECC availability matters a lot – exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with its horribly bad market segmentation,” and that “Intel has been detrimental to the whole industry and to users because of their bad and misguided policies [with reference to] ECC.”