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Andrew Tanenbaum's comment on Minix in the Intel ME. Reaffirms me in my license choices. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
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@lain
> If nothing else, this bit of news reaffirms my view that the Berkeley license provides the maximum amount of freedom to potential users.
For one definition of "users".
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@lain One of the actors along the way does some obstinate URL parsing. http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/intel/ should come through it unharmed.
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@lain
> I figured it was a new Ethernet chip or graphics chip or something like that. If I had suspected they might be building a spy engine, I certainly wouldn't have cooperated,
>I think creating George Orwell's 1984 is an extremely bad idea
>People should have complete control over their own computers
He's Dense.
RMS was right again.
@ekaitzzarraga
>because an attacker could make an audit and find security issues.
And yet security holes were found without the source, and we still can't correct the said security holes ourselves. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/3690644