<story><title>Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126001161773056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>No, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t, not even if I could print billions in a snap.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d rather help funding the port to a 10 times slower but open platform, rather to a technically superior but proprietary close one whose owner would make it incompatible two seconds after they would smell competition from Linux in any of their core business fields.
No thanks, I&amp;#x27;ll send my small quid to whomever appears to be really in favor of openness, no strings attached, which is neither the case with Apple as it is not with Google or Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas&amp;#x2F;?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;how-app...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashneo76</author><text>No.No.no.no.no.no.no.no.&lt;p&gt;A million thousand times no.&lt;p&gt;As some one else said, every spare dollar I have is going to fund a company that values open source hardware, open source software, right to repair and own.&lt;p&gt;A company that doesn&amp;#x27;t purposefully force manufactured obsolescence as a business model, privacy intrusions, lip service to OSS, bullying right to repair in courts, tax evasions doesn&amp;#x27;t deserve any free work from the skilled people in the community. All of this, just so that they can make more billions when people around the world are suffering just to give their restrictive supply chain their blood, lives and tears.&lt;p&gt;You know why open source hardware is expensive for lower quality? Because Apple pays the premium on the premium quality stuff. But I&amp;#x27;m that process they also drive up the prices.&lt;p&gt;Hardware manufacturers want the Apple cash, so they wait for the Apple contract and when they get that, any other contracts that you might have will get delayed and sidelined with lower quality stuff. Essentially, a monopoly in the supply chain</text></comment>
<story><title>Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?</title><url>https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126001161773056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>No, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t, not even if I could print billions in a snap.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d rather help funding the port to a 10 times slower but open platform, rather to a technically superior but proprietary close one whose owner would make it incompatible two seconds after they would smell competition from Linux in any of their core business fields.
No thanks, I&amp;#x27;ll send my small quid to whomever appears to be really in favor of openness, no strings attached, which is neither the case with Apple as it is not with Google or Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas&amp;#x2F;?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;how-app...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>Lol they highlighted running Linux &lt;i&gt;in the first announcement of the ISA switch&lt;/i&gt;, they see no threat in Linux at all. Their business model would need to change dramatically for that to happen. They’re a hardware company that makes the hardware more attractive with software, service and device integration. Their software restrictions are part of the value proposition, but anyone fully ejecting from that would be on their own. Linux becoming attractive on their hardware would almost certainly be unsupported, but I seriously doubt it would be undermined.</text></comment>