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ZeroGravitas on May 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet

Didn't sun "open source" sparc? Doesn't ARM succeed partly because their licensing is more "open"? Now that the necessary software is mostly open I wouldn't be surprised to see people moving down the stack into firmware and hardware.

hvs on May 26, 2010 [–]

I'm sure that you know this, but "open" and "patented" are not mutually exclusive. Lots of codecs are "open source" but you can't use them commercially without paying money to someone (e.g. MPEG-LA).

_3u10 on May 27, 2010 | [–]

ARM licenses the source code for the ARM platform so you can build your own SoC. I think ARM PLC is fabless.

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