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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