Re:Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
by saagarjha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:05AM
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Nobody brought "open" into this discussion other than you. The claim was that this hardware is not locked down, and it is not. I don't think there is much more to say because this computer is literally the definition of not locked down because they give you the key to the lock.
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Re:Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
by rjzzleep on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:17AM
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Fair enough, but the GP actually did no mention of locked down. He said kinda locked down. Then your jailbreaking buddy defined that as "it's only locked down if it is a secure boot device where no third party access". When it's clear that that's not what the GP meant, not to mention that is english the opposite of locked is open/unlocked. Since we're still speaking english, "not locked" means open.
Not to mention that apple can silently overwrite this at any point in time with a MacOS update. As they have done so before leaving plenty of macs bricked because of broken SPI flash[1].
I share the excitement for the M1 chip, but you would have to be blind not to see this as troubling for the future of open computing.