IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation
> 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.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've failed? This is a massive success and a new beginning - they've taken a closed system they've been working on for decades and opened it up - we should be applauding this action, not denigrating the effort.