Intel's Open Source Future in Question as Exec Says He's Done Carrying the Competition (theregister.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/2016225/intels-open-source-future-in-question-as-exec-says-hes-done-carrying-the-competition
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/intel_open_source_commitment/
> Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant's new leadership. Speaking to press and analysts at Intel's Tech Tour in Arizona last week, Kevork Kechichian, who now leads Intel's datacenter biz, believes it's time to [1]rethink what Chipzilla contributes to the open source community . "We have probably the largest footprint on open source out there from an infrastructure standpoint," he said during his opening keynote. "We need to find a balance where we use that as an advantage to Intel and not let everyone else take it and run with it."
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> In other words, the company needs to ensure that its competitors don't benefit more from Intel's open source contributions than it does. Speaking with El Reg during a press event in Arizona last week, Kechichian emphasized that the company has no intention of abandoning the open source community. "Our intention is never to leave open source," he said. "There are lots of people benefiting from the huge investment that Intel put in there." "We're just going to figure out how we can get more out of that [Intel's open source contributions] versus everyone else using our investments," he added.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/intel_open_source_commitment/
Unclear on the concept (Score:2)
They seem to be contributing for the wrong reasons. Or at least they are now.
Guys... (Score:2)
Open source is the ONLY reason i buy intel. I run linux on my laptop, and I have futzed around with AMD laptops, but they come with sub-par wifi chipsets, where intel's open source wifi driver is 1000% solid and reliable. Same goes for their GPU driver, though at least AMD radeon open driver is on-par.
If intel pulls out of FOSS and AMD fixes their fucking wifi chip, I'll be all-in with AMD.
Also, conspiracy theory: this may be nvidia's weight being applied to future GPU driver modules since intel and nvidi
Re: (Score:1)
I run Linux at home on a mix of AMD and Intel machines. But work is still mostly Intel.
If Intel stops supporting Linux, we can easily switch those work machines to AMD. We're not going to switch them to Windows just so we can stick to Intel CPUs.
Interesting question (Score:2)
How can you share in a way that satisfies self-centered greed?
Change your Stardust on MySpace (Score:1)
In fact, charge your states for rackspace.
He is right (Score:3)
Perhaps they should focus on carrying themselves for a little bit. Clearly something they have forgotten how to do . . .
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Clearly the genesis of this news is for them to do exactly what you suggest.