To the extent that RISC-V is successful it's due to openness/freeness; RISC has nothing to do with it. An open "CISC-V" community would have been just as succes

To the extent that RISC-V is successful it's due to openness/freeness; RISC has nothing to do with it. An open "CISC-V" community would have been just as successful (and people wouldn't gripe about instruction fusion).