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Tanenbaum published an open letter about this [1]. The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anythin
by boricj 2y ago
Tanenbaum published an open letter about this [1]. The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anything back. This was permitted by the BSD license, but all these deployments didn't actually help MINIX3 itself grow as a project.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240920163544/https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240920163544/https://www.cs.vu...
- chipdart 2y ago> The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anything back. That's hardly relevant though. Either a project is usable and people use it, or a project is unusable and people don't care if it even exists.