>While 'general computing' can't be taken away, what an individual or small company can support won't be able to compete with the locked down systems, especially if the upstream efforts are spread across multiple open source fronts.
This is a very pessimistic view.
IBM never designed the PC to be future proof. It just happened to pick up.
RISC-V standardization extends to the boot process and the platform, facilitating a standard PC that's cleaner, simpler and better than the current incidental IBM PC derived platform, which has accumulated much baggage since 1981.
The platform standard being open and simple minimizes the effort the software side (esp. the OS) needs to spend on supporting the hardware.
This is a very pessimistic view.
IBM never designed the PC to be future proof. It just happened to pick up.
RISC-V standardization extends to the boot process and the platform, facilitating a standard PC that's cleaner, simpler and better than the current incidental IBM PC derived platform, which has accumulated much baggage since 1981.
The platform standard being open and simple minimizes the effort the software side (esp. the OS) needs to spend on supporting the hardware.