On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:25:46AM -0400, Marcel Mourguiart wrote: > > > >So what is the advantage of Linux then if you easily give up its major > >advantage, namely being open-source? > > > Try to name one linux distribution with only free open source software > available, debian no, suse no, red hat no, ubuntu no ...
At least for the first three distributions there is no closed source software included in the free version, I am not that sure about Ubuntu. But what do you want to tell us now? Just because non-free software does exist we whould resign and give up the idea of free software? > So been not open source is not the issue, well then the problem is kernel is > GPL and nvidia binarie driver is not ?? _That's mean you can't provide the That's the legal point, yes. > nvidia driver with the kernel in the same media_, but not in the same server The GPL does not say anything about _where_ you have to provide the software but _what_ you habe to provide, namely the source code. > as a repositories ?? ... that's just ridiculous, there is just no legal > issue there. Would you mind getting a clue about the GPL before telling other people where there are legal issues and where not? Robert -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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