IBM has started a new contest meant to spur open source development on their POWER architecture, http://www.linuxonpower.com/
Prizes are offered for coders that port some common open source applications to the architecture. A Tier 2 prize, a Mac G5, is offered to anyone who can port one of the list of Tier 2 applications. Color me shocked to find Wine and Winelib listed there! This marks a change in IBMs policy towards Wine, or perhaps signals a management oversight. While normally it seems that they have an active policy of censoring any references to Wine and completely denying its existence, here they are offering prizes for porting it to PPC. So, now, I guess, the obvious questions: Does Winelib even need any porting? Does it build on PPC as it is? Can we run notepad and such on Linux/PPC? Does any of the work done on porting to AMD64 help us here? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
