minix - tannenbaum won!
John Newman
jnn at synfin.org
Thu Nov 9 09:19:45 PST 2017
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 01:23:47PM -0300, juan wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 10:07:19 -0500
> John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
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> > Tannenbaum's open letter to Intel is also a good read:
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> not seeing much of value there - I would have expected a
> principled and scathing attack on the biggest fascist chip
> manufacturer on the plaenet and their 'management engine' but
> there is onli one line in a post script.
Yeah, Tannenbaum is not a guy to expect that sort of thing from, I don't
think. I just thought it was interesting.
>
> also, the fact that motherfucking intel gets to 'save' money by
> using free stuff isn't exactly good news either.
>
> last but not least, at some point it's quite ridiculous for
> open source advocates to give weapons to their enemies.
Minix is BSD-licensed, so anyone can take it and do what they will with
it. I guess you're advocating for GPL only in open source stuff? I can
see both sides of the argument...
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> > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
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