Andre Hedrick

Maintainer of the Linux kernel's IDE/ATA driver and a T13 committee participant during the 2000–2001 fight over standardizing 4C Entity's CPRM proposal into ATA. He mattered to that fight on his own axis, distinct from EFF's outright-rejection stance: he argued that refusing to ratify a documented command set would just push the same functionality into undocumented "Vendor Unique" ATA commands, which Linux (or anyone) would find far harder to detect or block — reported as calling this "the real Trojan Horse."

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• claim-andre-hedrick-opposed-cprm-ata-standardization-on-vendor-unique-command-grounds
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-30-what-exactly-did-the-4c-entitys-cprm-proposal.md