I mean he has accepted a position as a luminary at the x86 ecosystem advisory group the most dominant and proprietary instruction set ever formed by companies with vested interest to keeping it in use and prevent competition (RISC-V & ARM) from catching up.

Nothing is devoid of global politics.

Russian maintainers were unceremoniously kicked out citing compliance issues.

RISK-V and ASML have been targeted by them in the past to prevent Chinese use.

reading the broad points regarding RISC-V, I think my worst case scenario is apparently just the present day.

but then the project loses momentum, the userbase fragments, opensource projects are fragile as they are mostly volunteer work; I guess the discussion of government threat and overreach towards opensource projects is mostly discussed in the context of cryptocurrencies and other ‘disruptive’ software

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024 https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

what’s the recent Linux drama?

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024

https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

It seems everett always solves his problems by resorting to violence

Its just an analogy, imagine you take your horse for a health check up and the insurance company directly asks the horse about your riding habits

I dont get it, do both countries want to assure MADness?

Reminds me of that story from reddit where op caught a falling microtome blade and suffered from blood poisoning because the nurse messed up his blood types