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I want to appreciate Andrew Tanenbaum for making possible the world's most popular OS, Intel ME. This system has been made absolutely right in every its piece e

I want to appreciate Andrew Tanenbaum for making possible the world's most popular OS, Intel ME. This system has been made absolutely right in every its piece except license. Minix under GPL would not let megagorporations to backdoor every functional x86 chip on the planet.

hun3 2y ago
What keeps it from becoming a free software backdoor?
- luyu_wu 2y ago
  GPL would theoretically force ME to open its source code.
  - hun3 2y ago
    Yes, so an open source...backdoor.
BSDobelix 2y ago
>right in every its piece except license. But then it would not be the "most popular OS" right? Whats your logic here?
SkyMarshal 2y ago
A different license wouldn't change that. They would just find some way to do it with BSD or some other OS.