On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:24 pm, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 7/12/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? By legitimate you must mean 'closed source' and since there are > > largely functional open source options already it would be far cooler > > to help finish one of them and offer it as part of OpenSolaris. If > > functionality, usability, correctness, code quality, maintainability, > > and everything else we would measure are equal, the open source > > offering is better than the closed. Consistency with the DVDCCA's > > misguided and authoritarian philosophy is not some important > > additional feature but rather a serious design flaw. > > I think he's pointing out that from a legal standpoint, Software DVD > players aren't legal unlicense licensed appropriately, and as far as I > know, that would make such a piece of software only legal in Europe or > any other country where patents are invalid. > > For those of us in countries where we cannot change the fact that they > are not legal, a "legitimate" option would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, exactly. As I just replied to Keith, I don't see those open source "hacks" being a legitimate solution that can legally even go back into the ON consolidation. That means they'll never be able to be a part of OpenSolaris in it's pure form, and will only be able to be layered on top through the means of another distributions based on OpenSolaris. This is fine, but I would personally like to have something legal that I could play DVDs on, even if I was to buy it (I'm not opposed to purcasing software, even though I support open source;-). -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
