[eimrine]

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.

[SkyMarshal]

A different license wouldn't change that. They would just find some way to do it with BSD or some other OS.

[BSDobelix]

>right in every its piece except license.

But then it would not be the "most popular OS" right? Whats your logic here?

[hun3]

What keeps it from becoming a free software backdoor?

[luyu_wu]

GPL would theoretically force ME to open its source code.

[hun3]

Yes, so an open source...backdoor.