[amelius]

> today's world of oligopolies and company consolidation

How long until we have to sign a license agreement before we can use an OpAmp? Oh, and the license is only valid for consumer applications. Want to use the OpAmp for enterprise applications? That'll cost you more.

That's if we're lucky. In a darker scenario, all OpAmp designs have been bought by Apple, and you can't even use one if you opened your iPhone because the function has been integrated into the CPU.

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Fortunately so far we don't need to sign a license agreement to use an Intel CPU, yet. OpAmp EULA doesn't look like something currently on the horizon. But if an EULAed CPU ever became true, so will an EULAed OpAmp...

> In a darker scenario, all OpAmp designs have been bought by Apple, and you can't even use one if you opened your iPhone because the function has been integrated into the CPU.

Scary, because many microcontrollers already have OpAmps built into them...