It wouldn't really fit with the PR narrative for them to just license IP from ARM, and they probably wouldn't develop nearly as much technical knowledge as they would developing the architecture themselves.
Aside, I hope my comment didn't seem too abrasive. It's hard not to get attached to something you work closely on most of your life.
I expect you are exactly correct on the narrative angle. Which is sad because there are so many great stories of people who worked on someone else's technology and then branched out and started their own. The Fairchild => Intel story is just one such example. And it makes me sad when the 'narrative' interferes with the goal. If the goal is to develop a vibrant CPU/semiconductor capability in India then that effort is cultivated by minimizing risk where possible and leveraging other work. And leveraging ARM would be a great way to train up on all the things you have to have/do in order to support a range of offerings for a given ISA.
As for abrasiveness, I read it as a passion more than insult. I also read it as a signal of frustration and I like to understand the roots of the frustration in order to improve things.
I suppose it could be deleted though. I would hate to be a contributor to calcification.
One of the things that stuck out to me about the article was that everyone of their stated goals would be met "instantly" if they bought an ARM architecture license. They aren't cheap but in terms of man years of effort they aren't expensive either.
As a result of owning such a license they could make processors of their own design which leveraged they ARM infrastructure (this is what Apple does for example). That could meet their 'openness' of implementation goals, their 'made in india' goals, and their 'range of architectures from controller to server'. But they aren't doing that.
I understand you read it as condescending, but my intention was to be illustrative of the part of the problems they missed in that grand vision they wrote about in the article. How would you suggest I say that such that you would not hear it as a dismissal?