Pat Gelsinger's Open-Source Bias, Intel's Pledge To Openness

[Quackdoc]

Imagine if companies would Open source software and drivers that hit EOL, so many headaches would be saved for everyone, and so much hardware could be saved too.

[coder]

It doesn't make much of a difference if every company have their own "open standard".

It's better than closed, but I take your point. What's best for the ecosystem is for vendors & their customers to coalesce around common standards, like Vulkan.

To that end, Intel is contributing to both Vulkan and OpenCL.

[pinguinpc]

NVIDIA needs to learn from this.

[partcyborg]

Sure, sure. Intel's pledge to Open Source.
Outside of FW binary blobs and HW oopsies, why not?
They get to keep their spyware while baiting suckers with "open source"...

Can you post links to documented cases of intel bundling spyware inside binary blobs and/or firmware? Or are you just spreading nonsense.

[pgeorgi]

Can you post links to documented cases of intel bundling spyware inside binary blobs and/or firmware? Or are you just spreading nonsense.

Some people consider remote access functionality like the stuff shipped in AMT to be spyware-to-happen, and some even consider it spyware that just wasn't caught yet.

It's not the most obvious take, and the jury is still out on whether it's reasonable (remember the shock around PRISM and the zealots yawning "told you so"?) but it is a coherent line of thinking...

[woife]

Finally releasing the FSP would help.
Michael Wasnt' that promised a few years ago?

[Danny3]

Unless they open source IME and support Coreboot, all these promises are pure nonsense and marketing garbage !

[Paradigm Shifter]

Something else would be releasing the source to the Intel compiler collection, for example, so that we can undo the "see AMD CPU and cripple performance" flags.

[Termy]

While i respect everything intel is contributing to linux and other foss-software, i really can't take that pledge seriously while we are forced to use blackbox-ring-minus-2-blobs that have high spyware-potential for their systems...

[khanich]

see the source code for the Intel Microcode.

Considering how low level microcode is, this would be the equivalent of telling the world how their CPUs work.
Sure, AMD and probably quite some other companies would like to know that, but I do think that this would be VERY risky from a business pov, probably even too risky.