MIPS seems like a story of missed (mipsed?) opportunities. If MIPS had really been (or remained) an open architecture, there would have been little need for RIS

MIPS seems like a story of missed (mipsed?) opportunities. If MIPS had really been (or remained) an open architecture, there would have been little need for RISC-V. They had a decade+ head start in terms of tool support and silicon implementation, compressed/16-bit instruction formats, full 64-bit instruction sets, and scaling from embedded systems to HPC.