>From a development and engineering and administrative point of view, I > agree. From a meta-market-business perspective I disagree. Of course, > it's disingenuous to claim that S10 is open source when you are talking > to an engineer. It's insane. But, when talking to, say, a policy maker > who may have purchasing influence over billions of dollars of open > source-specified infrastructure, it's perfectly fine. It's simply a > generic conversation at that level. Those are two very, very different > conversations. Both are valid.
Here is a question. If XYZ distro redistributes closed source drivers, is it no longer open-source? (IE: Nvidia drivers for Linux). -Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070801/0f24cfa9/attachment.html>
