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by barrkel 4669 days ago
When a company starts supporting something in public, it usually ends up amounting to a kind of commitment - such that reneging on the commitment has costs, in reputation if nothing else.

In other words, the cost of this patch is not just this immediate code, but ongoing maintenance and support of further features. Almost certainly the guy who pushed the patch doesn't have permission to enter Intel into this kind of commitment.