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I'm going to guess it's the top result from the Google search of the forums for EFI and grsecurity? That or the wind is blowing me the wrong way down the river.
by crazysim 11y ago
I'm going to guess it's the top result from the Google search of the forums for EFI and grsecurity? That or the wind is blowing me the wrong way down the river.
- gnoway 11y agoThis would be really surprising and disappointing. Wind River used to be a/the major FreeBSD sponsor and is now owned by Intel. Intel of course is heavily invested in the Linux and FOSS community.
- fredkbloggs 11y agoIntel's commitment is to specific products and technologies that it has determined are either in great market demand or are checkbox items in support of its other products. The company has no affinity whatsoever to Free Software or Open Source ideals, and most of its products are closed-source and protected with extremely restrictive licenses. This is especially true in the space at issue here; Intel does not make its firmware available under anything resembling Open Source terms. The same applies to its CPU microcode, most of its specifications, and the large body of tooling used by OEMs and embedded developers (much of which is not only closed but Windows-only). Intel is committed to supporting GNU/Linux distributions offered by its partners or as demanded by the market at large, but in general it remains an extremely closed, secretive vendor.
- gnoway 11y agoThey run the open source technology center (http://01.org http://01.org). Even if their actual goal is exploitation, why would they even blink at 5 figures a year to sponsor this group vs. giving their lawyers something to do and risking exposure like this?