Little to no monetary benefit, hardware changes now need to be documented for Linux, loudest and most critical users but smallest volume.

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joelthelion 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And risk of loss of control on the software ecosystem.

	▲	freedomben 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is the big one IMHO. Apple is all about control of the stack, top to bottom. Any sort of "help" with linux on macos would be threatening to that control. Apple "helped" even more than I would have expected by not locking alt OSes out of the bootloader. Probably for less than altruistic reasons, but they did do it.

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mhh__ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know if that's true. Linux users are curious and will try more stuff but people mistake that they file bug reports (and usually detailed ones...) with complaining more.

Apple's MO is that it's their baby. End of. They don't do open. Their compiler is closed source, and so on.