and ... who cares if it is open-source or and open-standard? the same problem would occur if you tied to "sanction" some other open-source because china! oh, f

and ... who cares if it is open-source or and open-standard? the same problem would occur if you tied to "sanction" some other open-source because china! oh, for example linux. freedom, as in speech, is a double-edged sword. the bag, as it were, cannot be put back in the cat. what helps us, helps china. and what hurts china hurts us as well, maybe even worse. it's no different than the physics that preceded the development of atomic bombs. the papers, the theories were public or semi-public all the way into the 1930s. germany actually helped the effort by banishing some scientists and by funding others. and then both groups collaborated internationally. once a weapon was postulated, and war was afoot, everyone made it top-secret. but the fundamentals were widely known by then. it wasn't keeping secrets that won the race. it was the equivalent of spending the equivalent of 27 Billon dollars first that won the race. so if you want to beat china in RISC-V, spend the money to develop it first, faster, better. throw 27 Billion into the development and do it faster and better than your adversaries. it 's a fair contest, so you better get to it.