Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
by toyg on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:42PM
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It's just one datapoint - there are plenty more. Simply speaking, when they are the underdog and have to attract developers, they open up; and when they don't need it, they close doors. That's just what they do, it's a perfectly rational strategy (if cynical). They are hardly the only ones at this game, Microsoft does it too. I am just pointing out that promises of openness with Apple typically come with an expiry date.
Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
by doctor_eval on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:50AM
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Apple and Microsoft have never pretended to be “open” and their behaviour is quite predictable - Apple most of all. You might not like their behaviour but they haven’t tried to trick anyone.
Contrast with Google and the infamous tweet about Android:
I can see both sides here - the viral nature of GPLv3 is anathema to a company like Apple, so simply walking away was inevitable; and people were exploiting loopholes in the GPLv2 (I have no idea whether Apple was, but there are documented cases of others doing it).