Re: Also Microsoft
"Whether trying to make such restrictions on tools that have been sold and installed and that are the property of the overseas fab is left as an exercise for the lawyers..."
What if the s/w running the machine has to phone home to keep the licence valid and the s/w working? A bit like Win10 and all the Software as a Service we see nowadays. I'm sure no one would dare break the Ts&Cs to override that. Lawyers!!!