• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    At a technical level it’s still young and most likely not as powerful as other similar platforms, but on a legal level the instruction set is an open standard and royaltee-free, so it can’t be embargoed through licensing like ARM or other instruction sets.

    I’m happy to see more openness in hardware.

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        No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

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          I still don’t understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?

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            It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

            So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

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                How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?

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                  You didn’t say it’s fully open-source so RISC-V is better no matter how “open” ARM is

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                    Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.