Here's the thing - is it corruption if it's actually their job? Whatever their official role, they've always been there to put down trade unions and organised workers.
> KaiOS is so light that it can run on phones with only 256MB of memory
lol. That is not "light"
And that website has the most embarassing "tech specs" section I have ever seen. What kind of kernel is it? They don't even say that.
If it really is based off of firefox OS, while parts of that are MPL licensed, it uses the linux kernel which is GNU and therefore is definitely meant to have that part of its source available. So where is it?
In fairness to minix, it's far far better than linux for this. It's microkernel design is more stable, potentially more secure (since drivers aren't in the kernel), and the codebase is far far smaller. So it's easier to audit and easier to fit on a chip too.
The ME itself is a terrible idea - but why demand the switch to linux? Better just open source the minix variant they're using and fix it up ourselves.
What this does show is that Tannenbaum should have licensed his OS with GPL, then we might have avoided this mess!
Here's the thing - is it corruption if it's actually their job? Whatever their official role, they've always been there to put down trade unions and organised workers.