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This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.
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When a big corp doesn't support something, it's by design. The engineers were told to not spend time on it.
There's some really fucking talented people working in these big companies, but they don't have freedom to make such decisions
Indeed,that's why I said they must feel useless
Nah, they feel paid. If they wanted to do this work they could.
Some likely do
That’s true in spirit, but in the employment contract with Apple, you agree not to contribute to any open source projects (at all) in your spare time.