It also decided which problem to solve:

"After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX ..."

Why do you think they would be concerned about patent infringements? Like all major tech companies, they are constantly fighting numerous patent lawsuits, mostly from trolls but sometimes other tech companies. It is part of the cost of doing business today. Some Linux enthusiast finding a possible patent infringement is of no concern to Apple.

You are clearly not the target audience. Perhaps you can recognize that other more recent internet frequenters might appreciate the knowledge.

To me this "knowledge" seems to be a crutch. Real knowledge would show how to do it on their own as thousands of us have done for decades and still do today.

One step at a time, we don't force people to build their own CPU out of transistors.

That is a really bad, far too fine grained example.

Don’t drop the ball on your toes! It happens...

A little bit of leather isn't really gonna help much there either.