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Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time

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"Open source is there to be subverted"

Says the article. Obviously any corporate decision maker would consider Open Source as just another means to an end, which is maximizing their profit. The question is how much they can actually hope to subvert it. Will Linux/FreeBSD users have to henceforth pay a monthly subscription to Intel to be able to keep using their workstations/servers? On one side, we have (I quote) "a trickster company, one that ignores its customers and uses its heft to get its own way", on the other a bunch of developers mostly concerned with (other quote) "fixing gender and racially insensitive language rampant in code". That doesn't bode well...

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world

That has such dicks in it!

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