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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

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  1. MoltenMonster · · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment&#x2F;pa1spia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment...

    &gt; The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.

    1. cromka · · focus · HN ↗
      I find it extremely ironic that big corp openly steals IP en masse to build their models but hackers are still concerned about using same models for their reverse engineering work.

      I think at this point the hacking community needs to grow some balls.

      1. rossy · · focus · HN ↗
        It&#x27;s not ironic, it&#x27;s the flipside of exactly the same reason. Bigcorps can steal with impunity because they have unlimited money to pay expensive lawyers. FOSS projects do not, so they cannot.
        1. otterley · · focus · HN ↗
          No judge I’ve ever met gave a damn how much a party spent on legal resources. With rare exceptions, they care a great deal about achieving justice, and often bend over backwards to help indigent parties avoid prejudicing themselves. Keep in mind that there are no indigent parties in this debate; both major IP rights holders and the frontier AI companies are well capitalized.

          (I worked in a federal district court for a while.)

          1. voakbasda · · focus · HN ↗
            The problem is that money buys lawyers, and you need those to get justice. If the other side spends more, you are likely to lose.
            1. otterley · · focus · HN ↗
              Which of these parties doesn’t have lawyers? (I’m talking about bigcorps stealing from bigcorps here.)

              In a case where both parties have lawyers, having more and more expensive lawyers is not necessarily predictive of a case’s outcome. There are diminishing returns.

              What having more resources tends to do is force the poorer party to settle quicker. But that’s not necessarily a loss. Judges still have to approve settlements in the interest of justice.

              1. voakbasda · · focus · HN ↗
                Settlements are not justice.
            2. cromka · · focus · HN ↗
              Not everywhere is the US.
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