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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by Liquix on Sunday January 16, 2022 @09:26PM (#29962711)
Not only do you not get a choice, it benefits no one but Intel & the three letter agencies they are in bed with. Tanenbaum himself has expressed regret for the way it ended up being used:

"Many people (including me) don't like the idea of an all-powerful management engine in there at all (since it is a possible security hole and a dangerous idea in the first place), but that is Intel's business decision..."

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by IntelMiner on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:36AM (#29963938)
I do recall him snarkily remarking that MINIX was thus "used on more PC's than Linux (or Windows!)"

30 years on and he was still upset I suppose

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by Fnoord on Sunday January 16, 2022 @11:29PM (#29963313)
He could have avoided the choice Intel had by not using MIT license.
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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by pmontra on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:00AM (#29964987)
Isn't it BSD [1]? Anyway it became BSD only in 2000. It was $69 before that year. Of course everybody started using Linux because it cost zero. Linux didn't end into Intel's CPUs probably because its GPL.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by Fnoord on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:30AM (#29980600)
You're right, I said that from memory and mixed up BSD license with MIT license. The point still stands though.
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