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Re:Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels... by smoldesu on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:42PM (#27080097)
What you're outlining right now are issues that affect the status quo anyways. Small companies always fight an uphill battle with larger ones, and copyright law is almost never respected: what else is new? Even still, they're weak excuses not to provide the public with information that likely already exists.
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Re:Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels... by Jtsummers on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:49PM (#27080144)
I'd contend that a requirement like this, without exemptions for small businesses, would make things worse for small businesses than big businesses and worse than the present situation. It's similar to many other legal regulatory requirements, small businesses end up bearing an outsized cost relative to their revenue.

And if you create exemptions for small businesses, the big businesses would do exactly what they always do, find loopholes to get subsidiaries/contractors to do the work and exempted and nullify the entire thing.

As nice as it would be to bring back (easier) access to system specs, it's impractical without fundamental culture changes that laws themselves don't usually produce.

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