A Cuck Licenser Gets What He Deserves

A Cuck Licenser gets what he deserves (and we all pay the price). One of the funniest and saddest horror stories of Cuck Licenses I can think of is Andrew 'Tanenbaum, who released MINIX, an operating system, under a BSD license. Intel silently took this software (thanks to its license) and unbeknownst to him, used it for their Intel Management Engine, making it the OS of the spyware microprocessor/backdoor now running on all Intel CPUs. We all have a permanent NSA backdoor because of the Intel Management Engine—all made possibly by my Cuck License cuckery. Only many, many years later was this revealed to Tanenbaum. Read that blog post of his as he slowly externalizes his mixed feelings, tinged with guilt. After all, on the "bright" side, he says: "I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS." Wow, what a proud achievement. But regardless, Tanenbaum already feels some regret about the fact that his permissive license allowed Intel to withhold this: "This was a complete surprise. I don't mind, of course, and was not expecting any kind of payment since that is not required. There isn't even any suggestion in the license that it would be appreciated. "The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me, just as a courtesy, that MINIX was now probably the most widely used operating system in the world on x86 computers. That certainly wasn't required in any way, but I think it would have been polite to give me a heads up, that's all." You can feel the regret. With Cuck Licenses, you get the worst of two worlds: You get no credit for your work, no money for licensing fees like other proprietary software and your software will be used to violate your and other users' privacy when it is used in closed-source environments. Oh, no... copes incoming: "Many people (including me) don't like the idea of an all-powerful management engine in their at all (since it is a possible security hole and a dangerous idea in the first place), but that is Intel's business decision and a separate issue from the code that it runs. A company as big as Intel could obviously write its own OS if it had to." emphasis added INTEL MANAGEMENT ENGINE BACKDOOR

На изображении показан скриншот англоязычного сатирического текста о лицензии BSD, операционной системе MINIX и скрытом использовании её Intel Management Engine. Шутка строится на саркастическом описании свободной лицензии как «cuck license»: автор получает ни денег, ни признания, а его код якобы становится частью шпионского бэкдора Intel. Мем используют как реакцию на разочарование в открытом исходном коде, permissive-лицензиях, приватности и корпоративном использовании чужой работы.

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