Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by MaxBarraclough on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:30AM (#25252411)

> everyone and their dog can attend some six weeks coding bootcamp or teach themselves using free and open resources and can then start contributing to open source code

Perhaps this was intended to be hyperbolic, but no, you can't become a kernel developer, say, in six weeks. You can learn to dabble in web development in that time, but you'll barely have taken the first step toward being a serious software engineer.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by j4yav on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:23AM (#25252693)

They said that it was possible to contribute to open source, which is surely true. Not that they could be a kernel developer.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by MaxBarraclough on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:13AM (#25252992)

Granted, but six weeks is easily long enough to learn how to assemble a computer, or to do basic soldering. If we're going to compare hardware skills and software skills, let's do so in a reasonable way. If we're talking about building a new system from the ground up, I think the comparison to kernel development is about right.

Much skill is needed to make a serious contribution to an open hardware project, but the same is true for many types of software.

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