> 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

> 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 I don't know whether Intel ME contains the usual userland tools that are typical for UNIX-like operating systems. But it is well-known that a lot of MINIX 3's userland was taken/ported from NetBSD, as the MINIX 3 developers openly admit: http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=developersguide:portingnetbsduserland http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=developersguide:portingne...