Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:45:56 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > Unfortunately, the Linux world is dominated by FOSS zealots for whom DMD > isn't open enough. In the ideal world the DMD backend would be under an > OSI-approved license so that it could be distributed by even the most > zealously pro-FOSS distributions.
The Linux world isn't dominated by a single homogenous group called the 'FOSS zealots'. There are as many ideological views as you can imagine. First, there's an ideological mismatch between 'free' and 'open' (it's the ESR vs RMS issue). ESR believes in right wing politics, RMS is a left wing fundamentalist. Some distros include non-free packages if they have the distribution rights. Some distros even provide commercial packages (http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/, http:// www.transgaming.com/ etc.) For example the language shootout author uses Debian derived distributions. They don't include non-OSI aproved software in the community repositories. It's simple as that. http://www.opensource.org/ docs/osd - provide an OSI aproved license + 32 & 64-bit backends for x86.
