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Why because afaik they have a master IP license in perpetuity to ARM designs and they can chop and change what they want - nothing is stopping them from divergi
by tibbydudeza 3y ago
Why because afaik they have a master IP license in perpetuity to ARM designs and they can chop and change what they want - nothing is stopping them from diverging from ARM reference designs completely and retaining just the instruction set because it is useful to tool vendors and programmers.
- klelatti 3y agoAh, the Apple has a perpetual royalty free license meme. Almost certainly a myth. Very, very unlikely anyone would get a perpetual license that covers all future products just because they were a founding shareholder. I did some detective work on this a while ago for my newsletter (link in bio) from behind the paywall: > … Apple and Acorn were paying royalty fees soon after they founded the company why should that change to grant Apple a royalty-free license at some point later?