On 11/11/2016 11:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 08:33 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Just to address this specifically, I am referring to Apple's penchant for
> stuffing their machines with hardware from vendors that don't play well with
> open-source (for example, switching to wifi-only devices and shipping Broadcom
> chipsets with no open-source drivers). Then also playing games with their
> bootloader system so that we have to go through lots of hoops to trick it into
> letting us install.
The whole 'you're only allowed to use OS X in virtualization on top of
real OS X' thing is fairly actively hostile too.
Then there's
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/5c8s1k/warning_2016_macbook_pro_...
which looks like Apple is now going to start reporting incorrect PCI IDs to make
their NVMe SSDs unbootable to alternate OSes...