> ARM licensing allows USA to enforce their "rule of law" or whatever BS on the rest of the world, "sanctions" is a nice word that gets thrown around a bit....

> ARM licensing allows USA to enforce their "rule of law" or whatever BS on the rest of the world, "sanctions" is a nice word that gets thrown around a bit.... > Tomorrow USA can force ARM to not sell products to countries on their naughty list. You make it sound like sanctions are arbitrary. The United States may not be perfect and may not always live up to its ideals. But there is an enormous difference between the imperfect democracies of the liberal world order (eg. US, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc) and the autocracies or downright totalitarian crypto-fascism in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Both sides are imperfect, but they are not equally imperfect. I want RISC-V to succeed. I believe in the freedom that FOSS delivers. The fact that dictators will be able to use these tools to oppress their citizens is unfortunate consequence of this freedom.