Yeah but.. that's where distros based on Debian come in. Personally, I like the idea of an open source only distro that you expound upon with closed AND open source packages to focus on a particular need/audience (e.g. Ubuntu and desktop)
Scott On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Adam Thornton <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Mark Post wrote: > > >> Why? Almost every Linux distribution has made exceptions to their >> own rules. Just look at Java. Up until recently, it was not open >> source, but it gets included anyway. As far as Slack/390 goes, that >> was my project, and although I didn't like the situation at the >> time, I wasn't going to have a philosophical meltdown over it. If it >> hadn't been for the cooperation IBM received, the open source >> proponents inside of IBM would never have gotten the code released. >> Sometimes compromise and patience win in the end. It certainly did >> this time. >> > > "Almost." > > I find Debian's insistence on license purity admirable from one > standpoint, but irritating from several others. > > Adam > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
