[Danox]

It is a dying quail effort doomed from the start if those three ex Apple engineers could get a license from Arm to design chips it is still baffling why no one else across the whole wide world didn’t follow in their footsteps. There is a Linux market.

I’m just shocked that it has not happened. With all the money flying around for AI data-centers you would think that this would be a more worthwhile effort?

Where is the European effort in this area? I would think it would be a natural for something to come out of the EU in this area.

[kakwa_]

I feel like more money would not have helped that much. Maybe it would have enabled a few of the devs to work on it full time, but I doubt it would have brought more people into the project.

I would indeed love the EU to step in but not in the way you are probably thinking.

I would rather see such effort being made unnecessary through a law forcing the manufacturers to provide enough information/specification or even code for alternative/after-market OSes to be viable on the devices they produced.

And also, if possible, mandate a degree of standardization (looking at you Android phones and ARM SBCs) enabling commonality of efforts when supporting a device class.