Haim Zilberbord writes:
> >"If people want to have a knife fight in front of thousands of people
>
> on list, I'm going to pull up a chair and watch the show."
>
> you want to say that i am flamer ? i am not interested in flame.
It really does look like flame-bait to many of us. Questions about
whether some bit of open source software is "real open source" are
usually loaded questions, and hard to interpret as anything else.
> is there any closed source tools, that opensolaris building process
> depends on ?
What counts as a "tool?"
If you mean the compilers and such, then "no," because you can build
with gcc and with the open source Sun linker.
If you insist on using _particular_ tools to build ON -- ones that we
don't use ourselves -- then you're quite simply on your own. The same
would be true for someone attempting to build Linux on (say) PRIMOS.
It might be possible to do it, but it's hard to tell why it'd be a
good or useful thing to do.
> yes , {list of tools} but its possible (or not possible ) to correct
> available open tools by this changes {list of changes}
I don't think anyone is going to do that work for you. If you're
interested, have at it; the source is available for download. But it
doesn't look like anything anyone working on Open Solaris has ever
attempted to determine this or likely would care to.
> this type of answers can help people not waste time on explanation of
> philosophical aspects ...
Given that the source is open, and that you can compile it on a system
that you can also get for free, modify and redistribute, and so on, it
seems to me that questions about philosophy -- rather than straight
technical matters -- are clearly in play here.
I think what you're really asking here is whether there is one or
another operating system that's "truly free," for some idiosyncratic
definition of the phrase. I think such questions are at least
off-topic for this list, if not just plain useless.
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