In Quake's case, it uses rasterization. Modern GPUs' rasterization pipeline are extremely configurable, not even needing triangles as immediate inputs anymore.

Doesn't Duke3D use the same rendering method as Doom? While there's no specific acceleration for column-based rendering, compute shaders can replicate the same behavior, but in parallel.

Modern GPUs can handle, from raymarched fractals, to raytraced voxels, to rasterized PS1-inspired scenes, etc. It's not like styles are lacking. If anything, GPUs have provided opportunities for more weird combinations by making other techniques viable as well. Contrast that to past, where techniques were cutoff by hardware limitations, resulting in similar ones being used to achieve the same results (both Doom and Duke3d use column-based rendering, for instance).

I guess some people love DRM and further losing control over our owned devices.

1. He hasn't spoused actual collectivist beliefs, like "nothing out of the state, everything within the state" kind of BS (YET), just intra-race and national solidarity, so "exalts nation and often race above the individual" is argueable;

2. I don't see him promoting a supreme leader style of leadership, so "that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader" is not applicable;

3. I also don't see him pushing for stronger state control over the economy. If anything, he probably wants a more developmentists/startup culture economy given point 2 and 3 in (https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so...), so "severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition" is out.

Overall, he just seems like a white supremacist atm. Not every white supremacist is fascist.

https://opensource.org/osd

That being said, I don't expect someone filing a new patent after a RISC-V extension being published to last much longer beyond discovery in most cases, which should keep costs in lower end. Specially so in cases of bad faith.

The set of US patents, however, are not infinite and, IIRC, is also public. That said, IP laws are a mess.

Why?

Who said they have to? One can select a RISC-V configuration for a baseline for a particular purpose. Desktop? Choose the one that's most powerful.

ARM is more popular than x86 and is less consistent than it.

At worst, the post reads like a propaganda for VectorWare, but, overall, it reads more like their insights on the matter.

I don't quite remember the details of the shell crash, I only remember it being on a tool that've never seem crash due to a fault signal. It was somewhat amusing.