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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 07:59:03 EST Bob Mottram

   "For the record, I would like to state that when Intel contacted me, they didn’t say what they were working on. Companies rarely talk about future products without NDAs. 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, even though all they wanted was reducing the memory footprint (= chip area for them). I think creating George Orwell’s 1984 is an extremely bad idea, even if Orwell was off by about 30 years. People should have complete control over their own computers, not Intel and not the government. In the U.S. the Fourth Amendment makes it very clear that the government is forbidden from searching anyone’s property without a search warrant. Many other countries have privacy laws that are in the same spirit. Putting a possible spy in every computer is a terrible development."
   
   

   -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
   1. mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 08:20:03 EST mangeurdenuage

      in reply to
      --People should have complete control over their own computers, not Intel and not the government. --
      So his he going to change the license of Minix ?
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 08:55:12 EST lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      Professor Tanenbaum, didn't it occur to you that there may have been some nefarious reason when they only sought non-copyleft code instead of some cut-down version of the prevailing unixlike OS/kernel (Linux, which comes with #GPLv2 #copyleft license)?