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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

We finally get another promising and actually open source RISC-V implementation among the sea of proprietary designs that just don't want to pay an ISA licensing fee, and this happens.

[–] roae@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Oof. That's unfortunate. At least it looks like people are downvoting them for the most part

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Nice, most of the bigoted comments went negative. Props to that community.

[–] soronixa@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

people seem to forget that it's the US backdooring every AMD and intel CPU, and that this one is open source. but most people are calling them out, so yeah.

[–] aFFJ8232ZedvX@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

I didn't read every comment but I didn't see a single racist one. Probably because they aren't. You're wasting your time, and wasting everyone else's. Advice: stop seeing racism everywhere.

On the other hand, it's a shame that people don't trust this open source initiative.