IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation
&gt; On the other hand, this seems like a sad and humiliating end to a once-proud processor family. It’s as if the Rothschilds or Rockefellers went begging on the street. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.<p>Wow. Why is it that when someone is confident in something and chooses to donate it to the people in the face of a changing market people treat them as if they&#x27;ve failed? This is a massive success and a new beginning - they&#x27;ve taken a closed system they&#x27;ve been working on for decades and opened it up - we should be applauding this action, not denigrating the effort.