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Did Apple pay anything for this? If not, they should.
by varispeed 6y ago
Did Apple pay anything for this? If not, they should.
- eknkc 6y agoI think they would rather pay to not have this.
- vbezhenar 6y agoThey explicitly allowed booting from unsigned code. They can break it with one firmware patch any time.
- Toutouxc 6y agoWhy?
- varispeed 6y agoBecause they save money - as they will not pay salaries and taxes on this effort and then when it matures they'll likely appropriate the solution and boast how M1 is great for developers. This should be illegal. In my country a person cannot work for a company for free, they need to receive at least a minimum wage. This port is essentially unpaid and untaxed work for Apple.
- kelnos 6y agoBy that logic, any enthusiast who has, over the last ~30 years, reverse engineered and written a Linux driver for a random piece of hardware, should get paid by the manufacturer. That's just absurd. I really doubt that Apple will latch onto the Linux porting effort at all. Their goal is to get people to buy their laptops and run macOS on them, and to lock developers in via Xcode and the Mac (and iOS) App Stores. Linux would be a distraction, at best.
- lukeh 6y agoPerhaps, for their data centers?
- vbezhenar 6y agoOne reason would be to use their own silicon in their data centers. They're using Linux servers after all. That does not require graphics, though. Actually I would not be surprised if they would release information for everything but graphics and wireless.
- viktorcode 6y agoThey didn't, and I disagree they should pay to get Linux porting effort going. Instead, they should publish info about M1 SoC that would make writing kernel extension or drivers for it much easier. That would make adapting any OS for M1 possible.
- varispeed 6y agoWhy not both?