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		devit on Sept 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali ... You can do that in hardware in most cases. Embed a unique serial number and only enable a feature if the driver passes a cryptographically signed message stating that the serial number has paid for the feature (and then sell the message data on your website).

shmerl on Sept 18, 2020 [–]

They could, but it's a bigger hassle than slapping some artificial restriction on the blob.

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