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Can't this argument be used to copy the x86 interface and avoid paying license fees to either Intel or ARM for the instruction set?
by lumost 6y ago
Can't this argument be used to copy the x86 interface and avoid paying license fees to either Intel or ARM for the instruction set?
- monocasa 6y agoThe word on the street is that is primarily protected by patents, which explicitly protect against from scratch competing implementations, unlike copyright protection which only protects against verbatim copying of the original work. On the plus side though, they only get 20 years of protection. x86-64 in it's original form should be up for grabs pretty soon here.
- heavyset_go 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_the_IBM_PC_on_the_personal_computer_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_the_IBM_PC_on_the...