[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Shawn Walker]

2008/6/26 Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com>:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Tim Cramer wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
> That's nice, our system doesn't really work properly, but it's
> documented...:-/

I actually wrote that, not Tim Cramer.

> audio seems completely broken to me, we have no codecs to use and anything

Audio is great -- if you're using OSS, which as you know is being
integrated soon.

> you try to do it tells you it can't use mp3s, it can't play DVDs, it can't
> do much honestly in the way of music, or even sound these days.
>
> Sadly, most people expect music as a part of their desktop.

Considering almost any modern Audio/Video technology requires payments
and legal agreements, I'm not sure how to we're going to solve that
one...

-- 
Shawn Walker