Yeah, iirc, at first they tried to downplay the change, then they paused it, then they walked it back entirely. I think that last step happened relatively recently, even.

But IMO the damage was done from just trying to alter the deal like that.

And, for me personally, I (naively) thought that ARM was an open standard. I opposed the Nvidia purchase because I thought they would do their corporate bullshit to kill off competition or for greed and thought that it getting blocked meant it would be free of corporate bullshit. This action makes it clear that it's already got some of that going on and ARM has been mentally re-filed to a spot beside x86 and its derivatives.

Though now I'm wondering if that's the whole point. Do some shitty corporate stuff so that the next time someone wants to buy them out, there isn't as much opposition and the current owners and C-suite can cash out.