[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Tim Cramer]

>> The irony is that even without the man pages that Sun can't yet
>> redistribute, OpenSolaris probably still has more, better
>> documentation than most GNU/Linux distributions.
>>     
>
> Oh, I so completely agree there! The man page were really one of the
> first reasons I started to use Solaris 2.6 and 7 when I was a student,
> in particular to use the C functions. Having them rewritten would be
> really a loss. And that there are no plans to open them is certainly sad.
>
>   

There are plans to get the man pages open.  We're working with the 3rd 
parties now to get these redistributable.   I found this to be quite 
frustrating as well.

Tim
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