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> RISC-V may, perhaps, compete in two fields with ARM: education, where ARM doesn't give a fuck, and hacker boards, which is a tiny market Those seem like very
by 394549 8y ago
> RISC-V may, perhaps, compete in two fields with ARM: education, where ARM doesn't give a fuck, and hacker boards, which is a tiny market
Those seem like very similar markets to those that Linux started out with.
AFAIK, Sun never ran FUD/attack ads against Linux, but this feels similar to a hypothetical world where they did so very early in 1993.
I doubt FUD will ultimately be able to prevent the adoption of RISC-V, but it may be able to delay the inevitable for a few years.
- lokedhs 8y agoIf I recall correctly SCO did. At least they pointed out how much more stable they were than Linux. And SCO was much more vulnerable to Linux than Sun was. Linux could even run SCO binaries unmodified. And we know what happened to them later. And I say this as someone who used to work for a SCO distributor, and later Sun.