Arm deserve all that's coming to them. A generation ago, their forerunners - Acorn - were happy to take, use and make a profit from the work of American univer

Arm deserve all that's coming to them. A generation ago, their forerunners - Acorn - were happy to take, use and make a profit from the work of American universities, yet when Berkeley asked to be able to use Arm's ISA for research purposes, they got short shrift. So Berkeley cobbling together a next-generation RISC ISA, and Foundation-ing it out of reach of the same thing happening again, is smart retribution.