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If Intel said, "needs to be open source or we'll find another supplier" then it would become open source.



Unless the current supplier is the NSA.


Agreed. But it has to rewritten, that takes some time and costs money. It's another barrier preventing Intel to chanige their mind about it. But in the end it would be open source if Intel changed their mind.




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