> But imagine if an US company designs a highly competitive RISC-V even if they don't directly license it would that help Chinese companies either directly or i

> But imagine if an US company designs a highly competitive RISC-V even if they don't directly license it would that help Chinese companies either directly or indirectly (e.g. people will port their software to RISC-V, major companies might adopt it etc. which would increase demand for other RISC-V chips and Chinese companies will unavoidably end up getting a slice of that pie with x86 and to lesser extent with ARM that's not a threat). You're really not going convince anybody who believes in the open-source ethos with that line of thinking. Not directly transferring technology is one thing, but your reasoning is we should all refuse to use a common standard because if the US makes a really useful product based on that standard, then everybody worldwide would benefit from the positive effects to the ecosystem, and China would also benefit and that's bad?