>Why would a hardware company which invested millions to design a RISC-V core give it away for free to their competitors? I wonder. But it's a fact it's alread

>Why would a hardware company which invested millions to design a RISC-V core give it away for free to their competitors? I wonder. But it's a fact it's already happened a few times. And the cores aren't even bad[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Open_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Open_source