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by tibbydudeza
1035 days ago
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Why because afaik they have a master IP license in perpetuity to ARM designs and they can chop and change what they want - nothing is stopping them from diverging from ARM reference designs completely and retaining just the instruction set because it is useful to tool vendors and programmers. |
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Very, very unlikely anyone would get a perpetual license that covers all future products just because they were a founding shareholder.
I did some detective work on this a while ago for my newsletter (link in bio) from behind the paywall:
> … Apple and Acorn were paying royalty fees soon after they founded the company why should that change to grant Apple a royalty-free license at some point later?