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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

ARM isn't the x86 solution people like it to be. It's at least as proprietary as x86 and the fact that it's more widely licenced today than x86 is a happy coincidence. ARM licensing can dry up with a change in corporate leadership or a takeover by one of a myriad large corporations. A solution worth cheering would be a good enough open RISC-V core.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

And universal drivers are an issue in ARM, bad for Open Source.

[–] mindbleach 3 points 3 weeks ago

Right, but ARM breaking x86's monopoly opens the door to RISC-V, pretty directly. We're talking about serious corporate money going toward a lot of software that's not technically emulation. Once it's easy to plug in x86 executables at one end and ARM chips at the other end... they don't have to be ARM chips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago