Possibly, but i don't see that happening.
Mainly cause of the manufactoring element. Will a opensource community band together to make a billion dollar fab facility?
Wasn't that what Transmedia (sp?) who hired Linus Torvolds was all about?
Besides, there is enough competition to push down prices. Intel may end up having it's hands full if AMD keep winning clients for it's opertron.
So between IBM's Power5, Sun's Sparc, AMD's Opteron, i think Itanium will have plenty of competition.
It's not like the monopoly hold that windows has, that is helping drive the Linux movement into large companies.
Besides if Itanium was doing so well, why is Intel working on a Pentium chip with 64bit extensions, just like, gasp, the Opteron.
Intel has enough to worry about, that i don't think an open source processor will be the issue.
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