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> If they open-sourced their userland drivers, and/or released their internal technical documentation, which would have a similar effect, they would open themse
by amelius 1mo ago
> If they open-sourced their userland drivers, and/or released their internal technical documentation, which would have a similar effect, they would open themselves to at least two big problems.
> First, they would spill all of their secret sauce for others to "draw inspiration" from. And there is a lot of expensive secret sauce in there. Not all of it is protected by patents either
Then why does Apple allow Asahi to reverse-engineer their low-level APIs? Are their lawyers not paying attention?
- david-gpu 1mo agoRelevant reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610136