OpenPOWER Foundation
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The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power Architecture products initiated by IBM and announced as the "OpenPOWER Consortium" on August 6, 2013. IBM is opening up technology surrounding their Power Architecture offerings, like processor specifications, firmware and software and is offering this on a liberal license and they will be using a collaborative development model with their partners.