[amelius]

> Apple: If you document the hardware enough for the Asahi team to deliver a polished Linux experiene, I'll buy one this year!

They probably can't do that because of potential patent issues that might surface.

Lawyers say no.

[rileymat2]

That’s highly unlikely, releasing the product counts as a public disclosure which would start the clock on filing.

[amelius]

You are thinking of the other direction.

I'm talking about competitors like e.g. Intel/AMD/nVidia who could browse the documentation and find potential infringements.

In fact what Apple's legal department forgot is that the Asahi team could enable just that.