EET.com has a story about politics going on in design automation and how Open Source is involved. "While the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) struggles with
turmoil amidst accusations of possible antitrust violations, a quieter C
language standards effort -- the SpecC Technology Open Consortium --
took a step forward this week when the University of California at Irvine
released an open-source version of a SpecC reference compiler and
simulator."
June 7, 2001