Nice to hear. It's been a long time now that Intel has been affirmatively on the open-source side. Not always evenly, & in every product, but they've definitely

Nice to hear. It's been a long time now that Intel has been affirmatively on the open-source side. Not always evenly, & in every product, but they've definitely been a friend. Lots of great support, lots of tools, usually decent documentation (unlike many computer chips) that's usually easy to get (again unlike many computer chips). And beyond that, Intel has often gotten how vital it is to keep a healthy ecosystem. When things seem kind of stale, Intel often steps in. A couple folks at Intel had a huge huge hand in driving forward USB & seemingly also in making sure it was semi-accessible to the world, adoptable. Intel saw a bunch of ultra-expensive proprietary SSD systems being made & drove forward the creation of NVMe standard to make sure the market remained healthy. Thunderbolt still seems like a mixed bag, but I guess we can't win em all. ;) It indeed went royalty free, but I don't think there's a clear specification folks can implement. And certification by Intel is mandatory for all products. > An example like this shows how our collective future – our collective potential – is unlocked when we enable openness, choice, and trust among us. > > This is why I fundamentally believe in an open source bias, which powers the software-defined infrastructure that transformed the modern data center and ushered in the data-centric era. Point A sounds amazing & lovely to me. But point B is kind of sad. Because from the open, collective future, we've gotten unimaginably vast inside-the-firewall worlds that most of humanity can't see, can't learn about, doesn't have any power or choice in. Unlike the personal computer, data-centers are facets ofcontrol & authority, and I have little love for the open, collectivized world being used as industrial reagents to develop some of the most un-learnable objects possibly in the galaxy. That these points are so close together in this letter made the contrast all the more immediate to me. Anyhow, one question... how is Intel's Open-source Technology Center (OTC) fairing? They have made so much good software over the years. Powertop is one everyone uses. I use their connman & iwd software over ye'old NetworkManager & enjoy it a lot, loved that it had ahead-of-their-time capabilities like wifi-p2p early. There's a lot of random good things of varying levels of need in Linux that 01.org has helped with over the years, and I'm curious what to look for going forwards. Efforts like OneAPI seem to be the main message, but there's a lot of general ecosystem health that Intel would pitch in with in open source. And notably few other chip companies on the planet that do or did anything like this.