I totally understand what the representatives are trying to do, but it's not going to work because they fundamentally don't understand the way that things work.

I totally understand what the representatives are trying to do, but it's not going to work because they fundamentally don't understand the way that things work. That's a recipe for stupid and dangerous rules that will backfire on the US. > I don't believe opensource HW can really work that well It'll work because hardware vendors are always trying to reduce costs, and licensing costs are part of that. A big part for embedded designs, less so for high end stuff, and guess where RISC-V is making inroads right now. > Instead you'd try to corner the market and then add proprietary extensions & other stuff to lock your users in Definitely a danger that this could happen. At Red Hat we've been pretty clear that we wouldn't support vendors that do this.