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If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their bus
by Tepix 6y ago
If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their business other than getting a lot of goodwill.
- 867-5309 6y agoit may not affect them at a pennies-in-billions level, but those pennies are owned by a few patent holders whose heirs will profit many times over in the foreseeable future
- toyg 6y agowhy? I doubt those obsolete chipsets will be used by anyone else, or anyone will be particularly motivated to shell out a lot of money for access to schematics.
- 867-5309 6y agothey are assets in the big machine, being sold or open sourced would reduce them and their associated incomes to nothing
- Tepix 6y agoWhat patents do you have in mind? If things are patented anyway, it wouldn't hurt to document them.