IBM is Moving OpenPower Foundation To The Linux Foundation

'IBM makes the Power Series chips, and as part of that has open
sourced some of the underlying technologies to encourage wider use of
these chips. The open source pieces have been part of the OpenPower
Foundation. Today, the company announced it was moving the foundation
under The Linux Foundation, and while it was at it, announced it was
open sourcing several other important bits. From a report:

Ken King, general manager for OpenPower at IBM, says that at this
point in his organization's evolution, they wanted to move it under
the auspices of the Linux Foundation. But IBM didn't stop there. It
also announced that it was open sourcing some of the technical
underpinnings of the Power Series chip to make it easier for
developers and engineers to build on top of the technology. Perhaps
most importantly, the company is open sourcing the Power Instruction
Set Architecture (ISA). These are "the definitions developers use for
ensuring hardware and software work together on Power," the company
explained.

King sees open sourcing this technology as an important step for a
number of reasons around licensing and governance. "The first thing is
that we are taking the ability to be able to implement what we're
licensing, the ISA instruction set architecture, for others to be able
to implement on top of that instruction set royalty free with patent
rights," he explained. The company is also putting this under an open
governance workgroup at the OpenPower Foundation.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/08/20/197244

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