I really wonder what is the point of OpenRISC/RISC-V, isn't there already open SPARC? I know that they removed quite a lot of things (too much IMHO) in the RISC

I really wonder what is the point of OpenRISC/RISC-V, isn't there already open SPARC? I know that they removed quite a lot of things (too much IMHO) in the RISC-V ISA to reduce the number of gates needed, but this has a price: there is probably much more support for SPARC in compilers/applications than for RISC-V.