---
title: "Andre Hedrick"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Andre Hedrick"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Linux IDE/ATA driver","CPRM","T13","Vendor Unique ATA commands"]
---


Maintainer of the Linux kernel's IDE/ATA driver and a [[T13]] committee participant during the 2000–2001 fight over standardizing [[4C Entity|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."

## References
- [[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