Although in principle I agree with you, the law generally depends too much on interpretation and precedent to be expressed and understood like you’re hoping for.
In complex prod systems, logging and traceability are generally more important than memory consumption and disk space. Memory and Disk are cheaper than a lawsuit if something goes awry
Dell also does this with their EMC storage arrays, it’s meant to push you towards their pro services. You are supposed to tell the array to order drives for you from pro services and someone from some nameless MSP contracted with dell installs it for you at a 10x markup.
You could probably look at protein folding libraries like pymol. Although not exactly the same, it’s generally close enough to ropes and it has enough knobs where you should be able to run the simulations you want
You could run into licensing problems. Apple wants their products to be a walled-garden. Even then, you'll have people complaining that the core is bad software.
This is pretty exciting. There have been loads of stability issues in the past, and it's always nice to see those issues addressed. I like the systemd integration too, that's a nice touch.