Open Firmware use on OLPC.

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Fri Oct 13 15:44:06 EDT 2006


Mitch correctly points out (in private mail) that OFW was always an open
standard: the specs were open and multiple implementations existed.  

So I'm happy to eat crow.  As opposed to OpenVMS, (a true misnomer if
ever I saw one, and I worked for that company when that screamer was
done), OFW was always open in the same sense of the Internet: open
specifications, multiple implementations, free rights to use the design.

Now the code is open too, thanks to both Sun and Mitch.

                             - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child





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