shows how spitefull(sic) the current administration is
Really?
US waste of money in the financial system created the crisis which now pushes the European to borrow money from the PRC, how long do you think it will take till you have to pay the interests(sic) ?
Really?
At what time and against whom has Google used a single patent offensively?
Oh please: Google funds patent trolls, gives patents to other companies to sue, and patents the absurd. Intellectual Ventures was suing Motorola Mobility while Google bought it, Google gave HTC patents to sue Apple with, and Google has patented Doodles on homepages...
Should they just allow themselves to remain defenseless against the Apple MS Oracle et al onslaught? Yeah right.
Should Apple just allow themselves to be sued? Yeah right.
Google isn't an altruistic international corporation.
Going back to the original point I was trying to make- ARM is not "open" in any sense of the word. You don't get the core unless you have a lot to invest, and we are a long, long way from from someone using their makerbot to whip up a new processor.
So something can't be "open" unless you can do it at home on the cheap? This argument is silly.
...We can quibble about what 'no cost' truly means...
High performance CPUs are expensive to design and fab... deal with it. ARM is many thousands of times cheaper to license than anything comparable and thus "open". It looks like that "open" column in the Wikipedia table you pointed to means the company freely gives you a VHDL description of the base architecture(which is neat, but really only lets you simulate the chip in software very accurately). Applying open-source-software dogma here doesn't make sense.
there is absolutely *NOTHING* in what you actually do with a modern microprocessor that forces you to a single (core) architecture.
Is this in a hypothetical world where anything might exist or are you still talking about this world? Lots of stuff dictate what architecture you use, and they all pretty much boil down to cost: compiler/tools, foundries willing to fab your design, access to engineers, current design characteristics(power draw, int/float/vector performance, number of IO pins).
Going back to the original point I was trying to make- ARM is not "open" in any sense of the word. You don't get the core unless you have a lot to invest, and we are a long, long way from from someone using their makerbot to whip up a new processor.
So something can't be "open" unless you can do it at home on the cheap? This argument is silly.
Going back to one of my previous posts- ARM isn't magic, and ARM and x86 aren't the only cores out there, let alone the only cores that can run Linux. Given a good kernel and a good compiler, the core doesn't matter.
HARDWARE DOES MATTER!!! I'll completely disagree with you here. ARM allows people to develop high-end systems on a chip that meet exact needs which is exactly why they are SOOO popular.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
