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		hvs on May 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet I'm sure that you know this, but "open" and "patented" are not mutually exclusive. Lots of codecs are "open source" but you can't use them commercially without paying money to someone (e.g. MPEG-LA).

_3u10 on May 27, 2010 [–]

ARM licenses the source code for the ARM platform so you can build your own SoC. I think ARM PLC is fabless.

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