Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> writes: > It's a new interesting ARM platform with very good performance. Yes, > it is closed but it's also kind of a nice challenge to overcome that > hurdle. So mixed feelings about that part.
Let's not also forget that it gives people a choice as to what software they can run - rather than having to run something out of necessity (i.e. macOS) because it's the only thing that will run. Is that not the dictionary definition of "vendor lock-in"? :-) It's probably more of an investment in the future, since somewhere down the line Apple will decide they want to extract some more money from their users, and stop supporting that particular piece of hardware. What do you do then? You either put up with running an old, out-of-date version of macOS on your perfectly good hardware, give up and buy new hardware, or, you start looking at alternative OS to run. OpenBSD being one of those alternatives would be splendid. That's not to say that if I had some compelling reason to purchase such a machine today, I wouldn't love to be able to run something other than macOS on it - preferably where the value of "something other than macOS" is OpenBSD. So I am definitely *not* saying that attempting to support such hardware in the nearish future is bad idea. In fact, I think it's tremendous. I wish those involved the best of luck. (Also, I envy those who have sufficient time to attempt such a thing, especially if it's just for nothing other than shits and giggles.) Ash
