Is now approaching $1000.00. What are normal people supposed to do?

Because it's tiny and gives hardware acceleration to a function 100% of users need.

My uptime, on the machine I'm posting from, is nearing a year, and this module has never been loaded. So, no, 100% of users apparently don't need this, at all.

The affected module is compiled into the kernel,

Why?

That's a feature. These people should be paying Apple.

Don Ho has occasionally used the release notes (opened automatically after installing an update) and the web site to express anti-PRC opinions.

That's called spam, whether or not I or anyone else agrees with it (or not).

to "vet" these models is all in the White House. I'm sure of that.

I'll bet he's never been to Seattle.

lecturing others on ethics and morality.

They wouldn't try this in a mosque.

We're in a sad place when freedoms are considered something "dumb".

I don't share my computers. Get your own.

No different than Trumpist USA.

If I would violate an Apple license, I bet they'd come after me in court. I wonder if they're pursing this surgeon, right now (somehow, I don't think so).

What does his race have to do with this?

The science is on the manufacturer's side.