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I don't believe it, honestly. I would gamble that it's because helping Linux grow doesn't financially benefit them, now or in the future. And that, to me at lea
by fartcannon 5y ago
I don't believe it, honestly. I would gamble that it's because helping Linux grow doesn't financially benefit them, now or in the future. And that, to me at least, feels quite a bit more likely from Apple.
- macintux 5y ago> Personally the fact they didn’t produce Linux drivers for these things is baffling. Followed by > helping Linux grow doesn't financially benefit them, now or in the future Is a bit perplexing. Why are you baffled? Opportunity cost is a very real thing. Apple would probably be better served by developing Windows drivers, if they were going to take developers away from macOS drivers.
- fartcannon 5y agoI didn't write that I'm baffled. That was a different poster.
- macintux 5y agoOops, sorry, the shared 'f' first character must have thrown me.
- etchalon 5y agoYou'd lose the bet. Apple, like every company, is limited by the speed at which their supply chain can produce specific parts. And, while they're often the largest customer for a given manufacturer, they're rarely the only.
- fartcannon 5y agoThere's literally people working on it right now, for free, that they could pay and give access to all of the docs for the hardware that they designed in house.