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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by Abishek_Muthian on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:59AM (#21638775)
None needs to, it's opensource. They're moving to protect its freedom.
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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by krowfromthewall on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:20AM (#21646183)
I think the term used for Hardware is Open Access, not Open Source
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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by Abishek_Muthian on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:33PM (#21654186)
Not necessarily.

RISC-V Foundation just calls it 'open ISA' and Wikipedia states as 'RISC-V is an open-source hardware instruction set architecture'.

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Re:RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb f... by wang_li on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:02PM (#21640819)
Since it’s open source they don’t need to move the foundation to protect the design. They’re moving to protect their ability to collect dues from companies tightly controlled by governments that commit human rights abuses on a massive scale.
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