• janNatan@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Isn’t risc-v an instruction set itself? It can’t be x86, because x86 is the instruction set. Someone more knowledgeable, feel free to chime in.

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          7 months ago

          Did you miss the part about China? They don’t give a shit about patents.

          In their view patents only exist for their companies to copy and profit from.

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            7 months ago

            While they might not give a shit about patent, they do need the design detail, something only the licensor could give.

            Without it, they’d be spending their precious time reverse engineering with no guarantee of success.

            RISC-V, on the other hand, have the design documents available to public.

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                7 months ago

                Reverse engineering is reverse engineering. It is in fact legal in most places.

                Yes, there are differences between unlawfully acquiring design document and creating one thru collection of perceivable data

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                  Lol yes because China is well known for their lawful acquisition of intellectual property.

                  How silly of me.