Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel. I'm biased, of course. But, I think things are much better now. We have ways of having relatively "normal" conversation

Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel. I'm biased, of course. But, I think things are much better now. We have ways of having relatively "normal" conversations about these things where a broad set of community folks are involved. It's not perfect, but it's way better than it was a year ago. The embargo was really painful to work with, even for folks like myself who were inside Intel during the whole thing. I'm used to being able to ask folks for help and to lean on the incredible knowledge of the kernel community. For Meltdown, I was much more on my own than I was comfortable with. It wasn't fun.