Comment by Retr0id
Even if they can't defend it legally, it costs them ~nothing to add the header and it could still act as a deterrent.
Even if they can't defend it legally, it costs them ~nothing to add the header and it could still act as a deterrent.
Apple famously does this with this word soup in their SMC chips, and proceeded to bankrupt a company that sold Hackintoshes and shipped it in their EFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
Though one could argue that they would have probably bankrupted them anyway even if they hadn't done that.