Comment by amelius

> If they open-sourced their userland drivers, and/or released their internal technical documentation, which would have a similar effect, they would open themselves to at least two big problems.

> First, they would spill all of their secret sauce for others to "draw inspiration" from. And there is a lot of expensive secret sauce in there. Not all of it is protected by patents either

Then why does Apple allow Asahi to reverse-engineer their low-level APIs? Are their lawyers not paying attention?