Doing that without properly compensating ARM is like killing the goose that lays the golden egg. ARM is already trying to make a $20 smartphone. There is already a $25 FF OS smartphone.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/06/20-dollar-smartphone/
How much does ARM make from such a phone after all the physical costs are taken out? a few cents?
Your unexamined assumption here is that copyright monopolies are the only way to compensate people for work like this. That's not the case.
Here's a good list (I hope you'll excuse the libertarian source): http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Without_Intellectual_Property
People are making money today doing creating intellectual products without the benefit of copyrights and patents, and they're some of the highest margin industries out there.
If, however, we look at the actual thing society has an interest in promoting: to get people to do the hard work of original research and engineering optimization, then we find there are lots of ways to solve that problem without granting monopolies or treating information like physical property.
Doesn't ARM keep coming up with new and innovative designs? Don't they have companies like Intel nipping at their heels waiting for a misstep? Isn't ARM on server an uphill battle for them they are working on?
Why do we need to shake up their business model? To what end exactly? To make smartphones a few cents cheaper than they already are?
>If, however, we look at the actual thing society has an interest in promoting: to get people to do the hard work of original research and engineering optimization, then we find there are lots of ways to solve that problem without granting monopolies or treating information like physical property.
Go on... what are some of the "lots of ways" ? I am genuinely curious.
[0] Some information, like intelligence information, is more valuable the less people have it, which is a major distinguishing feature here.