Hi, True, but at the same time, until there it is 100% opensource, its going to be difficult for a distribution to be independent of Sun's input in some form or another.
Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joerg Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:09 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. Gerald Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are > NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far they can > get away with doing things that an American based company cannot. > > Red Hat has had their lawyers look into this issue with regards to the > Fedora Project and it is quite clear that not only can Red Hat and/or > Fedora not include this questionable software in their distributions > but even linking to it could cause legal problems in the US. > > This would also apply to Sun given that they are also an American > company. This is why it is important to be able to have net-install and packet mirrors for Solaris in Europe provided buy people other that Sun. Jörg Unfortunately until _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
