On: Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future

[nsajko]

I don't want them to focus on RISC-V. Only time will tell how appropriate RISC-V can be technologically in a smartphone application, and why would you want the company that focuses on open source to invest themselves into it? Are you aware that Riscv being an open ISA has absolutely nothing to do with open source (either software or hardware)?

[dahfizz → nsajko]

If every compiler cost $1000 for every time you wanted to compile something, there would be dramatically less OSS.

Having an open, free ISA _allows_ for open hardware.