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I think that, given a large enough group of people willing to make a mass-purchase of CPUs, Intel would be likely to listen to requests for a batch with an open-sourced Management Engine component, or some shim akin to the one RHEL uses to boot UEFI in Secure-Boot mode. (mentioned it on /r/ReverseEngineering a few months back.)

I don't know who to reach out to at Intel on that suggestion though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/3pwxjn/...




The possibility I see is their semi-custom business. A cloud provider or someone else with the money can have them make one that strips out all the spyware or DRM stuff. Leaves everything else. Optionally, strips out some other baggage from backward compatibility that FOSS OS's don't even need. Preferably, though, smallest possible changes to the chip like straight up removing the wires connecting ME.




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