Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Tue, 15 March 2011 00:18
> Usually, people who do write non-free softwares on Linux ( like Adobe > for flashplayer, Oracle for Java, etc ) are also those that do > commercial business around it, and also pay the patent holder for > usage, > as seen when accepting the license on installation. I have the impression there is a misunderstanding, the sw you are talking about is a special case, and in the case of Adobe it's actually not open source software at all, I was talking about non-commercial open source software that has a FOSS incompatible license (and is 'tainted', i.e. with patent issues). As far as I can see most of the stuff in 'non-free' is like this, open source but with a FOSS incompatible license, not binary-only. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/