Selling ES processor is a risky business.

[Praz]

What I posted above does not necessarily mean that I completely agree with how this situation is being handled. If I was faced with something similar with one of my businesses I would most likely go after the end of the supply and demand chain also. But it would be a secondary action. My primary focus would be the suppliers of the chips.

As Movieman has stated I believe in the beginning this thread was a friendly heads up to people at XS as to what Intel's planned course of action was going to be. Look at what the common response was. People posting that they would continue to buy and sell the processors and if that wasn't acceptable don't release them.

The request to not use the processors in competition was met with the same response. HWBot went as far as to publicly state the following.

As long as no manufacturer is interested enough to actually sit down with Hwbot and work out a decent way to promote hardware on the one hand and provide a challenging benchmarking platform on the other hand, there's absolutely NO need for us to follow their wishes. So no, there's no need for Hwbot to prohibit ES hardware because Intel prefers not to see these in competition.

http://www.hwbot.org/forum/showpost....&postcount=126

None of us can expect there to be no consequences if someone is backed into a corner and continually slapped in the face. From the beginning it seems as this was handled improperly by all parties.

[dinos22]

why are you dragging your dirty laundry across different forums