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by SassyThrowaway 1381 days ago
> Especially if an open ISA means that our systems will be more portable and faster to develop.

So I understand that RISC-V does not immediately impose licensing fees, but how does that translate into portability and speed of development? I'd think that tools and toolchains do not especially benefit from there not being licensing fees, and do benefit from somebody paying cool kernel/compiler hackers. Tools hardware designers use as well as the designs themselves will stay closed. What am I missing?