On 1/21/22 22:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: [snip]
Whatever the licence then, it seems to have ended up with a sufficiently free licence for Intel to put a copy of it in the management engine in their CPUs for the last decade or so *without informing Tannenbaum*. Tannenbaum was miffed; he said the licence allowed this, but he would have liked to have been informed.
That move probably makes MINIX the most widely used operating system around these days: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html There is at least one recorded lecture by Andrew Tannenbaum about MINIX at the BSD conferences because it mainly has a NetBSD userspace. /Lars _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
