Re: Oh, Those Crazy North Mexicans ...

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 01:31:15 -0000 (UTC), John McCue
<jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> wrote in <vq89h3$2422s$1@dont-email.me>:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So China is investing more heavily in RISC-V, as a reaction to US
sanctions on exports of proprietary technology
<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-government-

shifts-focus-from-x86-and-arm-cpus-promoting-the-adoption-of-risc-v-
chips>.

But the idea that they can avoid sanctions by using open-source
technologies just seems to enrage some in the US even further:

 
That ship has sailed. If sanctions were applied like 30 years ago it
could have slowed things down.  But at this point, China has a vibrant
tech industry and can probably develop much more quickly than the US due
to the US war on education.
 

   some American lawmakers urged the Biden administration to limit
   domestic companies from working on RISC-V

<snip>
 
How stupid can the US be ?  All this will do is ensure China will
control the tech industry.
 

So what? The USA is going to try and claim ownership of (and impose
export controls on) open-source now?

 
Sure they can try, but the political occurrences in the last couple of
weeks probably showed the world they can soon start ignoring the US.

I live in California (thankfully), and I'm disgusted with the current
administration, as well as their blitz on the U.S. Constitution.

This city used to be part of Mexico, so it would have been
"North Mexico" at the time. LDO's pejorative isn't far off the mark,
but he's late by over a century.

Not to far North of here is Ft. Ross, which was a Russian fort when they
had territory on this coast.  So if one were paranoid enough about the
aims of the duplicitous Russians, one my fear they would try to reclaim
that territory.

I could ramble on.  Suffice to say that if the Cheeto Benito isn't
a Russian asset, he hasn't done much to differentiate himself from
someone who is...and in any event, he is no fan of California.

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