Open Firmware test image available
Mitch Bradley
wmb at firmworks.com
Thu Oct 12 17:10:24 EDT 2006
Some of the IP belongs to FirmWorks, and that is being opening up too (I
am speaking as the President and founder of FirmWorks).
We shall see whether it really is possible to make money with Open
Source, or whether the few companies doing it are the exception instead
of the rule.
Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Alon Ziv wrote:
>
>> Is the source for the OpenFirmware interpreter itself open?
>>
>
> It will be very shortly.
>
>
>> firmworks.com site it looks like it is the _principal_ IP of the
>> company, so it looks rather strange they would license it for free...)
>>
>
> It's Sun's IP, and Sun is opening it up completely.
>
>
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