[indiana-discuss] Including Sun Studio cc with Indiana

[Shawn Walker]

On 14/06/07, Stephen Lau <stevel at sun.com> wrote:
> Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > On this regard, I would like to ask Glynn and Ian; is Indiana intended
> > to be a fully open source distribution? If so, are we going to package
> > the Sun compilers? Are we going to use it just to create the binaries?
> > Are we going to use gcc until Sun releases the compilers as open source
> > somtime in the future (I don't even know if there are any plans on
> > release the compilers though)?
>
> I thought I had read that they were intending it to be a fully freely
> redistributable distribution; as of now, it can't be fully open source
> due to the required closed binaries.

As long as there is some sanity to those limits; in other words I
don't even want to hear one complaint about it including binary blob
network video or whatever drivers. That is one thing I am absolutely
sick of hearing excuses about from the Linux community.

I want to use my hardware, all I care about is that it works, it
should not be the right of the developers to tell me what drivers and
I can cannot use for *my* hardware.

Likewise, if only a binary driver is available and no open equivalent
exists, its better to support the hardware in some form that not at
all.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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