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Why?

• varispeed 6y ago
  Because 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 ago
    By 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 ago
      Perhaps, for their data centers?
• vbezhenar 6y ago
  One 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.