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But... replacing Minix with Linux wouldn't be replacing proprietary code with a free alternative. It would be replacing free software with a less free alternat

• comatose 9y ago
  Your use of 'free' here is correct from the perspective of a developer working for intel, but as a user with a cpu running modified and previously opensource, but now closedsource, software it isn't applicable to me. GPL would have protected more of my freedom, provided they didn't just violate the GPL.
• cure 9y ago
  None of the four freedoms are available in this context, Minix as part of the Intel ME. cf. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html