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Not only do you not get a choice, it benefits no one but Intel & the three letter agencies they are in bed with. Tanenbaum himself has expressed regret for the
by Liquix 5y ago
Not only do you not get a choice, it benefits no one but Intel & the three letter agencies they are in bed with. Tanenbaum himself has expressed regret for the way it ended up being used:
"Many people (including me) don't like the idea of an all-powerful management engine in there at all (since it is a possible security hole and a dangerous idea in the first place), but that is Intel's business decision..."
- Fnoord 5y agoHe could have avoided the choice Intel had by not using MIT license.
- pmontra 5y agoIsn't it BSD [1]? Anyway it became BSD only in 2000. It was $69 before that year. Of course everybody started using Linux because it cost zero. Linux didn't end into Intel's CPUs probably because its GPL. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix
- Fnoord 5y agoYou're right, I said that from memory and mixed up BSD license with MIT license. The point still stands though.
- IntelMiner 5y agoI do recall him snarkily remarking that MINIX was thus "used on more PC's than Linux (or Windows!)" 30 years on and he was still upset I suppose