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Re: This article is so confused and ill-informed it's almost funny

> [ ... ] your "we" should not have released it as "open".

I don't quite follow the logic here.

We gave you the ISA Spec for free, no royalties, and we gave you Verilog and VHDL designs for RISC-V silicon, for free, with no royalties.

You probably don't know this: open sourcing an ISA requires NSA export control approval. They could have easily said No and that would have been the end of royalty-free and open RISC-V.

"Open" doesn't mean it's yours, or that you invented it.

Someone made chips out of these designs that they got designs for, for free? Great! Bake your chips, sell them, make a profit and STFU with this endless litany of complaints.

If it weren't for the designs that they got for free from us, there wouldn't be a chip to sell, and there wouldn't be any profits.

There is nothing more obnoxious than a non-American who hates America, but wants to imitate it, fails at it, and then resents us for their own failure. And that in spite of America's numerous and major defects.