Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.
RISC-V is more open, but the hardware isn't necessarily open, and it's not yet really competing at the same scale as Power9 does... yet. There is hope :)
It's a lot more open than Intel's. You can get the hardware chip blueprints if you join the foundation.
But the firmware is all Apache 2 licensed.
This is not the entire source, but if you join the foundation you get the chip blueprints, etc.
But the entire BIOS is open. that's huge.
You can get the HDL for both those archs if you join the right orgs too. No, open source means more than having 'open' in your pproject name.
OpenPower has the entire firmware Apache licensed, see the link I gave. that's WAY more than any Intel/AMD CPU. Even all the secure-boot stuff is open(Apache Licensed).
Joining the OpenPower Foundation is free for < 300 employee companies, academics and individuals. see the membership kit: https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/
If you had read any of the links I gave you would have seen all of this for yourself. I provided proof. Please provide proof of your claims :)
Is it perfect, of course not. I never claimed it was, but it's WAY more open than anything else out there, except perhaps RISC-V.. except I don't believe any of the hardware for RISC-V is open at all, and none of the hardware that I'm aware of is yet able to compete with x86.. YET.
I do agree on the aims of the Eclipse project though.
The revolution in France wasnt until several years after the US war against the British was over.
Much of that same public opinion would then go on to power the French revolution a few years later. Lafayette famously wrote the "Déclaration des droits de l'homme" with Thomas Jefferson's help. Both revolutions had common ideological grounds - Enlightenment and democracy.
OpenPower has the entire firmware Apache licensed, see the link. that's WAY more than any Intel/AMD CPU. Even all the secure-boot stuff is open(Apache Licensed).
Joining the OpenPower Foundation is free for < 300 employee companies, academics and individuals. see the membership kit: https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/
Joining the foundation gets you the chip blueprints, etc.
For hardware it's like leaps and bounds more open than anything else out there that can compete with it. Could they open up more, of course, but for hardware, it's pretty amazingly open.
And they also do several contributions, e.g. openstack, linux kernel
I would agree that IBM is not pop enough and that their motivation is usually not based on ideals or a social contract.
EDIT: I forgot IBM Blockchain, which you might think it is not "core" just because the company is still divided between areas like services, consulting and hardware...
Open source hardware exists but is rare. I don't know what it means to open source consulting?