[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> This is not a matter of license but a matter of being trustworthy with the 
> claim that everything will be OSS in the near future.

Who has made that claim?   Perhaps something like "as much as possible", sure -
but I don't remember anyone ever saying everything will be Open Source.   After
all, if Sun had committed to everything, then we wouldn't have the Emanicipation
project being done only by community members.

(Please avoid the "OSS" acronym as it's overloaded, and could refer to either
 "Open Source Software" or "Open Sound System.")

> The first implication of this claim is that Sun cannot add new closed source 
> parts to the base OS which is the ON consolidation.

A computer installed with only ON is useless, so I have a hard time believing
it's the entire "base OS".

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