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minus-squareerwan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoNo it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-219 days agoI still don’t understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?
minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoClosed source but if you pay enough you can get the source
minus-squareerwan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoIt’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.
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-219 days agoToo technical; didn’t understand. I prefer RISC-V at this point
minus-squareerwan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoHow can you have a preference if you don’t understand?
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoYou didn’t say it’s fully open-source so RISC-V is better no matter how “open” ARM is
minus-squareerwan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoYes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.
No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.
I still don’t understand. Is it like RHEL (they give you all the source code) or more like Windows?
Closed source but if you pay enough you can get the source
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.
Too technical; didn’t understand. I prefer RISC-V at this point
How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?
You didn’t say it’s fully open-source so RISC-V is better no matter how “open” ARM is
Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.