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mk89
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An Open Letter to Intel
This "letter" smells so passive-aggressive... brr...
mankash666
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Exactly! The TLDR on it is - Intel followed the terms of the BSD license.
badsectoracula
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Another way to read it is that thanks to the BSD license, Intel got an entire OS for free to use for their backdoor core but that doesn't matter really - the important part is that MINIX is now the most widely used OS in the world :-)
Fnoord
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BSD Clause 3 requires they give credit.
gambiting
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Where are you from? I guess this must a cultural thing, because this letter does not sound passive-aggressive to me at all, not even one bit.
cee_el1234
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Sarcastic...more like ?
mk89
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Which is part of being passive-aggressive, together with "resentment, fear of intimacy/competition"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior
sgift
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Which are all just your interpretation of his post.
mk89
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Indeed!
Which is what sarcasm does :)
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