> ARM licensing allows USA to enforce their "rule of law"
Yes but how does that incentivize western companies to invest into RISC-V? I mean any western company would have to comply with US sanctions if they want to do business with US companies regardless of the architecture they are using.
And if they don’t care about any of that they might as well just use ARM anyway without licensing it. It’s not like all the documentation required wasn’t already leaked anyway making it basically equivalent to RISC-V (if you don’t want to play by the (western) rules). In fact it probably make more sense for Iran or Russia to clone ARM/x86 designs because they don’t have enough resources or expertise to create anything even marginally competitive on their own.
> If i build a GPL software/hardware, i don't care if iranians or americans or russians or chinese use it. If i was building proprietary one, then i do care.
> FOSS ?
Unlike in software there seems to be little incentive for companies to opensource their designs. Why would a hardware company which invested millions to design a RISC-V core give it away for free to their competitors? Unless they can monetize it some other way (.e.g like software companies can) there is no incentive for them to do that.
Yes but how does that incentivize western companies to invest into RISC-V? I mean any western company would have to comply with US sanctions if they want to do business with US companies regardless of the architecture they are using.
And if they don’t care about any of that they might as well just use ARM anyway without licensing it. It’s not like all the documentation required wasn’t already leaked anyway making it basically equivalent to RISC-V (if you don’t want to play by the (western) rules). In fact it probably make more sense for Iran or Russia to clone ARM/x86 designs because they don’t have enough resources or expertise to create anything even marginally competitive on their own.
> If i build a GPL software/hardware, i don't care if iranians or americans or russians or chinese use it. If i was building proprietary one, then i do care. > FOSS ?
Unlike in software there seems to be little incentive for companies to opensource their designs. Why would a hardware company which invested millions to design a RISC-V core give it away for free to their competitors? Unless they can monetize it some other way (.e.g like software companies can) there is no incentive for them to do that.