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If you got “freedom with $$”, there would have been no ARM/Qualcomm lawsuit.

• phire 1mo ago
  Softbank and ARM managed to burn a lot of good-will with that bullshit (it is a bad sign when I'm siding with Qualcomm), and all for nothing as they lost that lawsuit. But is generally true that the $$ buys architecture licensees quite a bit of freedom. Not as much freedom as they would get with something open like RISC-V, as ARM have strict rules around private ISA extensions (like how Apple doesn't publicly document AMX). But that extra control is generally a good thing for the health of the wider ARM ecosystem.
  • adgjlsfhk1 1mo ago
    The really big problem is that $$ don't buy freedom, they buy freedom for your lawyers to talk with ARM's lawyers about what features you are allowed to build.
  • lawyersuni 1mo ago
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