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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. (europe.pub)
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[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Love that she did it, although I'm surprised they didn't sue her for contempt of business model (i.e. Some copyright BS)

[–] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If they were smart they would hire her

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

She was hired as a contractor by Valve to work on Linux graphics driver related stuff. Valve knows who the experts are. And yes her work is amazing.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

That's good to hear. Too many clever people get slapped down by litigious assholes.

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

If you mean Apple, it wouldn't really make sense for them to do that. Apple primarily generates income from hardware sales, so they wouldn't care if people run other software on the hardware they already bought.

Edited to say: this doesn't really apply for the iPhone/iPad as the application ecosystem is locked down. macOS isn't though so users will do whatever they want anyway. There are even tiling window managers for macOS!

[–] BetterDev@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

Please. Tell me. I tried AeroSpace and was so sad

Somebody let me use Sway at work! I promise it'll make me faster!

[–] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They don’t lock down macOS but it still has an App Store where Apple makes 30% on sales

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Locked down is relative, while I use both I find the OS gets in my way a lot more on macOS than Linux.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

They bock it down pretty good. Can't remove apple apps like apple TV.