[tsomctl]

Are you annoyed that he's being negative, or because he didn't back it up with a reason?

Because I've done development both for embedded arm microcontrollers and CUDA. ARM feels like a benevolent overlord that wants to help you. Documentation is open, compilers are easily accessible, there's lots of random blogs with best practices on how to do common operations. Nvidia feels like their entire goal is to extract as much money out of you as they can.

I'm not hoping ARM fails. I'm hoping the sale fails, because if the sale succeeds, ARM will fail.

[ThrowawayR2]

Can't speak for the other poster but original post (Literally just "Good I hope the whole sale fails") provides no reasoning, information, discussion, or anything else of value, exactly the sort of low effort comment that the HN culture and dang usually discourages.

[gigatexal]

Yeah I should have added my reasons. My main reason is Nvidia’s stewardship of ARM, I think, would harm the whole ecosystem just look at Nvidia’s attitude towards open source drivers for Linux and the BSDs. Sure it’s basically a slippery slope argument but I think others have voiced similar concerns.