The whole ALA essentially boils down to "you pay us because other companies made our ISA popular".
This is why companies are pushing toward RISC-V so hard. If ARM's ISA were open, then ARM would have to compete with lots of other companies to create the best core implementations possible or disappear.
This is why companies are pushing toward RISC-V so hard. If ARM's ISA were open, then ARM would have to compete with lots of other companies to create the best core implementations possible or disappear.