Shawn Walker wrote: > I don't think that 100% open source should be a requirement.
For a REFERENCE platform, this makes perfect sense - if it isn't free and reusable, nobody else could make a distro compatible with the reference... I expect Indiana to be made up of a/the reference platform + some special sauce; furthermore, I expect Sun's version of it to be ref platform + the indiana sauce + a bunch of closed stuff (drivers...). I also expect Schillix (et.al.) to be made up of the reference platform + their own special sauce (KDE instead of GNOME...) > The distribution is merely an aggregation of software, after all... Not "an", but a very important "compatibility reference"... > Indiana is pretty darn close though; likely as close as we'll have for > a little while. The things that make Indiana different from SX are a bunch of not-yet-ARC reviewed or approved prototypes. That makes it difficult to commit to them as part of a compatibility reference.... > I disagree with this for the reasons I listed above. Good work and > drivers shouldn't be excluded as long as sufficient redistribution > rights are available for them. We don't want to handicap ourselves > just to be able to claim "100% open source." We are not talking about "any distro", but rather a specially blessed reference. Your points all apply to those others... -John
