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With that attitude, Linux and FreeBSD would never have started and would not exist today. You're advocating the total opposite mindset of being a "true techie".
by xcv123 3y ago
With that attitude, Linux and FreeBSD would never have started and would not exist today. You're advocating the total opposite mindset of being a "true techie". It has all been developed on proprietary hardware from the beginning. Everything was reverse engineered by talented hackers like these two. Vast majority of platforms are proprietary. Open source contributions from manufacturers started relatively recently. How can you call yourself a hacker if you're too lazy or stupid to reverse engineer anything?
- quickthrower2 3y agox86 / IBM PC is probably more open than M1/2 even back in 90s
- xcv123 3y agoWhat a joke. None of the drivers on x86 were open source, and there were literally thousands of devices that needed reverse engineering. The M1 instruction set is ARM which is already supported by Linux.
- quickthrower2 3y agoI am talking about the CPU not other hardware. Comparing Apple’s apples with apples.
- xcv123 3y agoHmm, well the CPU in the M1 is ARM64 which is already open. But the M1 is a system on a chip that includes many proprietary components besides the CPU, such as GPU. So it's not apples to apples with 90's x86, which was a CPU only, not system-on-a-chip.