Re: Development Speed

[Arthur Miller]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > Some of those old platforms are among the most important ones
>   > > because they allow operation without the Intel Management Engine
>   > > (or AMD's counterpart to that).
>
>   > Aren't there modern machines without this? Machines that are much more
>   > performant, reliable and secure than those old ones, which usually are
>   > tied to an unsupported OS full of security defects?
>
> Not that I've heard of.  Every so often I check whether there has been
> progress.

There are not, and there probably will not be. I think it is a decision
enforced by the goverment of a certain world power. Maybe if you used CPUs
produced in some other country for some other market, but do you really trust a
hardware produced in maybe even less free country where everything is under
control of one party? Getting rid of such features in modern hardware can be
only done in political way, but the wide masses are not aware of the problems of
mass surviliance so political solution is probably not possible at this time. As
of current using old CPUs without such hardware is the only solution, but that
is not a sustainable solution. Eventually the world will run out of old CPUs,
and the majority of population already can not obtain one such CPU.