Ah, does not releasing full documentation not count as Apple "trying to get in their way"? Not trying to be snarky, genuinely trying to figure out how folks draw the line, since in my head, keeping documentation private smells like obstructionism.
If I had to put a label on their stance, it'd be "chaotic neutral".
Also, designing the boot menu so that unsigned OSes can show up as valid choices or be set as the default OS.
As well as the EULA allowing the use of unsigned OSes.
Nope. Security settings on the Intel Macs were per machine just like other PCs.
The system of allowing per partition security settings so the user could install an unsigned OS without it effecting the security when booted into MacOS is new on Apple Silicon Macs.
As the Asahi Wiki puts it:
>From a security perspective, these machines may possibly qualify as the most secure general purpose computers available to the public which support third-party OSes, in terms of resistance to attack by non-owners.
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
Those sources are wrong. Apple doesn’t need to add or release anything to test their own hardware, they have an in-house Linux that hardware bringup uses.