Intel Accused of Being an "Open Source Fraud"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @09:19PM from the you-bought-it-now-you-can't-use-it dept.

Binary-Blob writes "Kernal Trap has an article up in which some key OpenBSD developers accuse Intel of being an open source fraud. The issue stems from the prevalence of firmware 'blobs' in open source projects, and OpenBSD's reluctance to use them unless they are distributed freely and without restrictions. Leading project creator Theo de Raadt offers that Intel should follow the example of other companies in the market: 'Intel must do this firmware grant in the same way that Adaptec, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Cyclades, QLogic, Ralink, and LSI and lots of other companies have granted distribution firmware to be used by others.' He concluded by requesting that the open source community contact Intel to help get them to change their policies"

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BSD confirms it by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-02 21:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Intel is lying...
Re:Any relation to this article? by Fred_A · 2006-10-02 22:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Apparently, they've gone from being "not really open source" to being "an open source fraud". This can be viewed as a progress of sorts and therefore qualifies as news. Hence the new posting.

At least that's my take on it. We"d have to consult with the /. staff shrink to know exactly what the real reasoning was.

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