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1. MoltenMonster · 1789511027 · focus · HN ↗

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   &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. ADevWithAnIdea · 1789514814 · focus · HN ↗

      &gt; concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development

      This is false. I am a former Apple engineer. I did not conceal it (it&#x27;s the top item of my resume and my LinkedIn and I made my PR from my public Github with my name attached, as opposed to a pseudonym which is expressly allowed by Asahi policy). I also had no exposure, at all, to any internal information or code about macOS, SPTM, or Apple Silicon during my time there.

      I also don&#x27;t have connections to people involved in Apple Silicon development (and I&#x27;d add that this does not mean someone cannot contribute, the question is were they exposed to tainted information, which is absolutely not true in my case). I have many friends who work for Apple (I&#x27;m a Stanford alum) but none in Apple Silicon directly.

      I disagree with the phrasing of this entire thing, but this statement is demonstrably false.

      1. thrwy19940314 · 1789519818 · focus · HN ↗

         At least according to your own accounts on the Asahi IRC rooms, you were very aware of SPTM (which is part of the AS platform) and knew the people working on it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oftc.catirclogs.org&#x2F;asahi-dev&#x2F;2026-06-04#35383763" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oftc.catirclogs.org&#x2F;asahi-dev&#x2F;2026-06-04#35383763

         1. politician · 1789521887 · focus · HN ↗

            Do you work for Apple?

            1. bigyabai · 1789522258 · focus · HN ↗

               Probably not. Clean room RE is serious business, projects like Dolphin have to carefully vet contributors to remain legal.

               1. 15155 · 1789537961 · focus · HN ↗

                  Everyone says this, and then exactly zero cases are cited in support of or against this creative legal theory known as &quot;clean room RE.&quot;

                  No statute defines &quot;clean room RE&quot; and there&#x27;s basically no relevant litigation establishing case law.

                  1. bri3d · 1789559437 · focus · HN ↗

                     CA v. Altai (where the abstraction-filteration-comparison principle comes from) and SAS v. World provide pretty strong positive evidence that clean room is a valuable technique in both the US and Europe.

                     I do agree with you that the term is misused (it’s almost completely irrelevant here, anyway) and over-applied, but “not having ever been in a position to see or access the source code” is proven, especially in SAS v World, to be a pretty strong defense that’s worth pursuing in some re-implementation scenarios.

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