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by abetusk 2557 days ago
This seems like a specific and direct attack at Bunnie. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? Was your opinion of what you call his 'warped view of other world' shaped from your conversation? What specifically about that conversation led you to that conclusion?

I don't know Bunnie and I only follow his blog posts sometimes but he's a strong proponent of open source software and open source hardware [1]. Bunnie is helping to develop a fully open source hardware laptop, Novena [2], that requires companies providing components to not require non disclosure agreements [3]. Bunnie is also specifically interested in FPGAs and making them and their toolschains available [4].

Your post seems like it has a veiled nationalistic and anti-open source undercurrent. Is Bunnies silence on the matter of the Huawei security issue reason for you to have this view? If so, do others not mentioning Intel's vulnerabilities [5] the past years also mean they have the same "warped view of the world".

To be clear, I'm not trying to absolve Huawei or Intel of anything. I'm trying to address the claim that Bunnie turns a blind eye to proprietary chipset and hardware technology more than others.

[1] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/hardware-hacker-anti-acta...

[2] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=28

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang_(hacker)#Novena

[4] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5166

[5] https://meltdownattack.com/

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I'm not attacking Bunnie, everyone has their own view of the world. Bunnie has repeatedly stated that he views IP as an impediment to R&D, and anything that threatens the quasi-open sourcing of hardware (eg: how data sheets, BSPs and code are passed around by sellers in China, in spite of the legalities) is bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY