| sigh here we go again. > I think the irony would be less dramatic if the free software wasn't running on hardware constructed with slave labor. Why do you feel the need to direct criticism of Apple's business practices at me? I do not work for Apple. > but people's worries about the conflict of interests here is fully justified. Then don't buy the machines and move on with your life? > Apple and open source are not friends Neither are they enemies. The world isn't binary. I do not exclude from my life everything that is related to everyone who isn't explicitly my friend, do you? > their ultimate goal is to stomp you out and expand control Ah yes, stomp us out by... building machines we can use to run our own OS? They could've just not done that and we wouldn't exist. > just don't be surprised when your blood, sweat and tears ultimately end up being used to grease the gears of their production line. So which is, are they going to stomp us out or are they going to embrace the extra business we bring? You can't have it both ways, you know. > We're talking about a trillion-dollar company that doesn't release their own device drivers or schematics; it's ridiculous that we even need to finish the job for them in the first place. I find it fun finishing the job for them. This is exactly the kind of project I enjoy doing. If you don't, then choose a different free software to contribute to. > It's hard to see this work as "noble" in the same way other free software projects are, at least to me. So our project is inherently morally inferior to others because you simultaneously think Apple should've done the work for us and Apple are our enemies. ???????? Seriously, this makes no sense. You know Linux itself started out as a hobby OS with no corporate backing and tons of other drivers are reverse engineered, right? Do you also think Nouveau isn't noble? What about LineageOS? What about XBMC/Kodi when it started? Freedreno, Panfrost, and friends? All of those projects are or were about bringing free software to devices designed and manufactured by giant corporations without any support. Heck, I got sued by a multinational for bringing Linux back to the PS3, and I still don't regret it. That work got upstreamed, by the way. |