> By reverse engineering closed systems, you are adding value to it but not changing its nature (the next iteration will just "close" it again). That argument

> By reverse engineering closed systems, you are adding value to it but not changing its nature (the next iteration will just "close" it again). That argument would totally hold for iOS devices: you might find a bug and create a jailbreak on a particular iOS version, but that "hole" closes by the time the next major version comes out. Apple really doesn't want to allow other operating systems (or even root access). But reverse-engineering macOS hardware is very different. A solid Linux port like Asahi fundamentally changes the nature of Apple M1 computers: they can be great Linux machines (and given m1n1's versatility, maybe even Windows machines!), not just macOS machines. Sure, Apple might "close" things again in the future, but that future is a long way off. They have given no indication of hostility to Asahi, so it's most likely that Apple computers will run Linux without any trouble until they release their next brand-new architecture. If history is any indication, that transition is likely more than 15 years in the future (68k was 1984-1994, PowerPC was 1994-2006, x86 was 2006-2021). > There are open systems that are struggling because they don't have talented developers working on their projects. Wish these developers would instead work on these projects - Sailfish OS, PineOS, Librem - Purism etc. For example, there are a lot of Intel / Arm tablets that either run only Windows or Android. It would be nice to run one of these Linux based mobile OS distros on it, and create a genuine alternate to the Android / ios duopoly on Tablets, right? I agree, that would be great in many ways. But honestly, all other things being equal, given a choice between running Linux on a Qualcomm ARM64, a Apple M1, or an Intel/AMD x64 chip, which one is the most desirable? Which will likely be the most desirable after the M1x or M2 comes out? At the most fundamental level, it's desirability that drives demand, which in turn decides which systems will be the most well-resourced.