[advocacy-discuss] ??: Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Hi Angad,

In my understanding the answer is no. Please note that the Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, FreeBSD are not 100% FOSS either. Richard Stallman currently uses an OLPC, also with a non-100% FOSS operating system. 

Best regards,

John via Cell Phone

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???:  "Angad Singh" <angad at angadsingh.in>
???:   advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
????:  08-6-21 14:17
??:   [advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

I am posting this question here as I am a sun campus ambassador and this more or less falls into advocacy of opensolaris. I have had a recent encounter where I am having problems proving opensolaris is completely open source to a group of people.

Here is the question I have been confronted with:

"Is there any way that today I can get an OpenSolaris system installed,
booted, running and doing common tasks (e.g. desktop, browsing, office,
mail) without any proprietary binaries at all?  A simple yes or no will
suffice.

If the answer is yes, then yes, OpenSolaris is FOSS.

If the answer is no, then I'm sorry, it's not FOSS (yet).  It may be
getting there, but I personally wouldn't touch it with a barge pole."

I have already explained in detail as to why and how it takes time to open up a software ecosystem like solaris and that it is 99% open.

Any help is appreciated.
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