IBM Open Source Firmware Download for PowerPC

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."

Very relevant....

[kawika]

...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

[IntergalacticWalrus]

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.