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		leoh 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containeriza... If they built as a kernel extension it would probably be okay with gpl. There’s a huge opportunity for Apple to make kernel development for xnu way better. Tooling right now is a disaster — very difficult to build a kernel and test it (eg in UTM, etc.). If they made this better and took more of an OSS openness posture like Microsoft, a lot of incredible things could be built for macOS. I’ll bet a lot of folks would even port massive parts of the kernel to rust for them for free.

fiddlerwoaroof 3 months ago [–]

My impression is they’re basically trying to end third party kernel development; macOS has been making it progressively more difficult to use kexts and has been providing alternate toolkits for doing things that used to require drivers.

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