Because you’d be denying cast and crew of their royalties?
If people pirated on a mass scale, the losses would add up. Whatever you may think about streaming platforms, don’t punish the people just trying to make a living.
That will probably happen eventually, but right now RISC-V only has the hp for embedded or peripheral uses. It will continue to nip at ARM’s heels for the next 5-10 years.
Seems there's an awful lot of slideware in the high-performance RISC-V department. We'll see when/if the rubber hits the road, I suppose.
Longer term, I think the future looks bright for RISC-V. If nothing else, at least the Chinese are investing heavily into it, for obvious reasons wrt avoiding sanctions and such.
That said, it seems the desktop/server high performance implementations are from SiFive in the US.
The main obvious reason is to dodge global IP issues with arm or x86*.
Trump is probably aware that "Big Tech" is a domestic issue (cr*ping the world, won't help to make america great again...). And he is right to push hard on the silicon, but "cleaning up" what's on top of it... ooooof!
“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.”
I think that's a sign of senility more than anything else. There's been articles which show clips of his speech in the 1980s and 1990s. His vocabulary was much more extensive, and he used more complex sentences than the word salad he spews out these days.
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