On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Christian Leber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 26 December 2009 01:55:02 Cristi Magherusan wrote: > > Hello Cristi > >> Intel chose not to use coreboot just because it won't protect its IP the >> way their closed-source part of EFI does. > > So why should it matter in any way for coreboot if Intel (or another company) > would be able to make use of coreboot code for free and give nothing back? > > There are other reasons than their "valuable IP" that i don't know. Because > any competing company that cares how Intel initializes memory or sets up the > northbridge etc. will be able to find out. There is just nothing to hide in > systems sold millions of times in many different versions. > >> So their Trusted Platform is >> actually promoting security by obscurity instead of openness, like most >> of the people are doing nowadays. > > That is a very smart argument, the minor problem is just that it would not be > open if they would not be required to publish source. > > > Christian Leber > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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