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  • That’s why I qualified my comment with “most”.

    Corporations gonna corporate so that’s why they don’t want their employees freelancing. Amazon, for example, has contracts that say they own all code created by engineers during their employment, so if one WAS going to freelance, Amazon could lay claim to any work they created, causing immense problems for the engineer. Now, whether or not and where those contracts are enforceable is another question.


  • The problem with most of these ideas is that they would violate a large majority of developers’ employment contracts. A lot of companies have overly restrictive contracts that prevent employees from freely creating other work without the possibility of legal retribution if found out.

    Obviously, check your contracts for these conditions and their enforceability in your locale (some people are forced to sign these in the US but they are not enforceable in most places).





  • Well allow me to retort:

    “Works” is not the same as “works well”. As you mentioned, the bare minimum of it working has been achieved…kudos I guess.

    The hardware is proprietary, and without someone devoting a LOT of time to reverse engineering the drivers to a point of, let’s say, 90% functionality, there is literally no point except to say “I can run a Linux kernel on this thing”.

    The point of even having the hardware to begin with is the battery lifetime with the power draw from the SoC. As you noted, you don’t get that benefit from Asahi. Not the full GPU power, or the audio hardware, or the networking, USB-C, external displays, Thunderbolt, or the onboard security features, or the network offloading…I can go on.

    Why would anyone buy a machine that is designed to run a specific OS, just to run a different OS on it and lose all the benefits of running that hardware in the first place? Bragging rights?

    It’s a stupid purchase if you just want a good Linux machine. Framework is a much better buy.