IBM Open Source Firmware Download for PowerPC

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 8, 2005 @08:47AM from the will-we-see-bargains-on-ppc-gear dept.

Nora writes "IBM developerWorks has posted an open source Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) download intended to aid the development of operating systems and virtualization layers for PowerPC-based machines. One thing that's kind of neat about it is that it is under a pretty liberal "BSD-like" license -- something I have not often seen IBM do. If I am not much mistaken (and please correct me if I am), this license makes it compatible with both GPL'd and BSD'd projects, among others. And in the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to add that I *am* affiliated with the developerWorks site."

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Very relevant.... by kawika · 2005-06-08 08:56 · Score: 2, Interesting

...until this Monday's announcement by Apple. Are a lot of developers going to want to pour their souls into code that will decrease in relevance and market size over the next five years?
PowerPC != Apple by IntergalacticWalrus · 2005-06-09 10:02 · Score: 2, Interesting

And this is in the Apple section because...?

Anyway, I guess soon generic PowerPC articles won't be dumped into the Apple section anymore. Heh.