RISC-V is "permissionless". Grab a core from github, grab the freely available specs, and start working. No up front agreement, no fees down the road. For Arm you have to enter a legal agreement before you can start, and then negotiate licensing for your product.
It's such a single point of failure that it kind of boggles my mind. Seems like the world would become chaotic fast if they just stopped giving out licenses (though I know that some companies like Apple have perpetual licenses)
RISC-V is "permissionless". Grab a core from github, grab the freely available specs, and start working. No up front agreement, no fees down the road. For Arm you have to enter a legal agreement before you can start, and then negotiate licensing for your product.
Also Arm have been acting aggressively recently which doesn't make other customers feel happy: https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/01/qualcomm_arm_cpu/