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While the comparison to MythTV for a fun coment, this is exactly what ARM would like the high level decision makers to feel. Just as Microsoft tried with their "get the facts" campaign years ago.

Notwithstanding your terrible MythTV experience, there's seveal companies offering commercial support for Linux today, and a lot of effort has been put into making it as secure as the Windows equivalent. I suspect the same could happen with RISC-V.

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Another comment mentioned Western Digital switching to RISC-V which makes a lot of sense and that's about it. I'm struggling to see how RISC-V would improve the situation with edge devices or personal computing devices where the implementations will probably end up being propriety in nature and beholden to the vendor for any updates.

Even when we do get something like a custom ROM for a router or smartphone it will still be reliant on custom kernel modules or other lock-ins hindering open source support.

It just feels like more of the same with a chance for ODMs to save some on the BOM while not passing the savings on to us.

I guess it's just hard to get excited about it without seeing some sort of benefit to the end user. That doesn't mean I feel like we should stick with ARM or x86, I frankly don't care.

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