On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: > [snip] > OpenSolaris 2008.05 is 99% opensource except for a few drivers and > userland tools. In all these cases the code is derived from third > party sources and Sun does not own the rights to open these up. These > will eventually be replaced with open cleanroom implementations. > These are all legally re-distributable binaries.
Thanks for the detailed mail. Let me reduce the question to the bare minimum: Is there any way that today I can get an OpenSolaris system installed, booted, running and doing common tasks (e.g. desktop, browsing, office, mail) without any proprietary binaries at all? A simple yes or no will suffice. If the answer is yes, then yes, OpenSolaris is FOSS. If the answer is no, then I'm sorry, it's not FOSS (yet). It may be getting there, but I personally wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
