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Software is an essential supportive pillar which stands between its hardware and lucrative value-added services.

Otherwise you have a shiny brick

My shiny brick is in space gray

They don't necessarily need to _support_ it, but that doesn't preclude being open enough to let others do the work.

They could simply release the specification documents that they obviously already have.

People aren't asking them to go out of their way to provide support or develop anything. Only to be open with their already existing documentation so that those open source devs that want can without doing unneeded work.

They may not want to encourage it. Being able to run linux comfortably would make users less dependent on the ecosystem

This project is obviously a farce, but I would not say Apple is against Linux insofar as supporting it on the backend. Their own backends are designed for raytracing/render farms and will probably always run macOS though.

Why is it a farce? I don't get what you mean. Hector Martin is really good.

Of course it might not actually go anywhere, it doesn't even have a commit yet, literally just a logo and webpage, but let's see.