>> “Often people say, ‘Open source, it’s free.’ But it’s not free,” says Dominic Rizzo...
It's Free as in freedom, not price. Think of it as unencumbered. Risc-v is not open source like software, there are some open sorce implementations though.
It's Free as in freedom, not price. Think of it as unencumbered. Risc-v is not open source like software, there are some open sorce implementations though.
Here's the full quote from the article:
> “Often people say, ‘Open source, it’s free.’ But it’s not free,” says Dominic Rizzo, project lead at Google and project director for OpenTitan. “This is why we find the most successful open-source projects are ones where people have a long-term vested interest and are working together in a collaborative fashion. This contrasts to the style of open source where people developed something and kicked it over the wall as open source.”
But the specifications themselves seem free as in freedom (CC-BY-4.0):
They also have private mailing lists, but I agree, it is certainly FOSS.