Yes, it's complete FUD. It's also moot, because it really doesn't matter much whats in ME, ME just needs to not exist. The primary reason for choosing MINIX is

Yes, it's complete FUD. It's also moot, because it really doesn't matter much whats in ME, ME just needs to not exist. The primary reason for choosing MINIX is memory footprint and reliability, additionally GNU is never popular for proprietary blobs like this... it would actually harm users with ME's current strategy if you think about it, GNU forces them to publish their likely buggy striped down version of linux, yet only intel can sign the firmware, so users are helpless and malicious people can find bugs in the code while intel sits on their hands. I don't find it hard to believe that Minix drivers are slow and primitive... Minix is not widely used like Linux, that doesn't really mean anything more than that, it's an amazing kernel and there is no better choice for an embedded system that you can't afford to fail and require user intervention. I guess the TL;DR is that Minix was the right system for the job, it's just that the job was unfortunately pure evil, so arguing about Minix is stupid.