Crazy is that they were aggressively anti-foss even with their drivers not too long ago. Intel graphics usually has good Linux support, except for GMA500 which was based on Imagination tech. N900 was the Linux darling phone, and the graphics drivers where god-awful buggy blob from Imagination. And so on..

For a company who historically has mostly made GPUs for phones and set-top boxes, I don't think that's true. People don't usually program these devices at this level. Especially in the case of all the hardware they did for Apple, no requirements to be open there.

Maybe these days that's changing but it's a big change for a company like this to embrace.