[advocacy-discuss] A review of OpenSolaris 2008.05 on The Register

[Alan Coopersmith]

Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to 
> speak with Richard Stallman, and he is very happy about the fact that 
> more and more GNU packages are being integrated into OpenSolaris -- 
> although he still claimed that OpenSolaris 2008.05 was not free software 
> because their is something free as lunch in there.

Right - for his definition of "free", we'd have to finish the Emancipation
project so you could build a completely open source version of Solaris, with
no closed binaries in irreplaceable things like libc.   Then you could have
a "Free (as defined by FSF)" version of OpenSolaris, by not including the
optional closed binaries like the nvidia graphics driver, but we're not
likely to ever have the mainstream distro be completely "Free" out of the box.

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