IIRC, when Linux390 first came out, parts of it were object only, closed
source.  Has this changed?  If not maybe complaints about closed source
in Solaris are not so reasonable.

David Boyes wrote:
On 3/23/09 4:46 PM, "Erik N Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:




I can certainly attest to this statement from personal experience. It is
impossible to build a working OpenSolaris on any platform without some
closed-source code, some of which (amusingly enough) is owned by IBM. There
are other parts of OpenSolars which Sun does not distribute source code, but
provides precompiled binaries, which clearly cannot be ported anywhere.




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