On: Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Te...

[saagarjha]

ARM is not open source.

[anthk → saagarjha]

ARM broke WIntel.

[Qwertious → anthk]

Smartphones broke Wintel, their ISA didn't need to be ARM as long as it was power-efficient.

[oblio → anthk]

And who cares? Functionally there is Apple ARM with its extensions and Qualcomm ARM with its extensions.

If anything, the x86 world was more open and more compatible. We have enterprise distros running on both Intel and AMD, supported by their hardware makers. Who in their right mind runs 3rd party Linux distributions on smartphones in production environments (i.e. the CEO's smartphone)?

[notpushkin → anthk]

Yeah, but how exaxtly is that relevant here?