These messages somehow did not make it to misc@ so I am resending them. My reply to RMS did make it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I basically asked RMS why he endorses Solaris which is not even remotely free. I encourage people to try to understand the FSF reasoning for this endorsement. I can't come up with anything else but a bought endorsement. Original message: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:07:15 -0600 From: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Real men don't attack straw men In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Richard, can you please educate me why you endorse Solaris? http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3717476_3 Per that interview you are endorsing an OS that basically won't run without proprietary drivers. I love Solaris as an OS but it isn't free. The CDDL clashes with the GPL; or can you explain why suddenly CDDL is GPL compatible? Did someone tell you its free? Might it have something to do with money? http://www.fsf.org/donate/patron/index_html We are talking about the same Sun that rejects open source drivers for proprietary reasons. Like this beautiful piece of software written by David Gwynne: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dlg/mfi/ This was rejected in favor of LSI's proprietary driver that adds nothing over David's driver. Eagerly awaiting your answers, /marco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RMS' answer: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.2 (2007-07-23) on mail.peereboom.us X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.2 From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: misc@openbsd.org In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (message from Marco Peereboom on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:07:16 -0600) Subject: Re: Real men don't attack straw men Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:42:08 -0500 Per that interview you are endorsing an OS that basically won't run without proprietary drivers. I did not know that. Can you send me a URL for the precise details? Once I know the details, I will ask them to post a correction in the interview. The CDDL clashes with the GPL; or can you explain why suddenly CDDL is GPL compatible? The CDDL is not GPL-compatible, but it is a free software license. The source code of OpenSolaris is indeed free software, just as the source code for OpenBSD is free software. If your information is correct, OpenSolaris has a serious problem, and should not be endorsed, Those are two different questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
