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gunfighthacksaw on Jan 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: On being a PhD student of Robert Harper

Minix was so good that Intel lifted the codebase (within the terms of the FOSS license, not telling the author) for their management backdoo- uhh engine.

turminal on Jan 27, 2022 [–]

We can only speculate, but it's very unlikely this had anything to do with how good minix is.

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