J Sloan a écrit :
Sorry, but if you're going to play dumb,
with several players... Linux is born quite many times agos and did not stopped to grow. Linux is now a major part of the server market and this alone make it's life sure. To hope find a solution to problems, these problems must be precisely evaluated and solutions found. right now, I see only one real problem, covering most of your concerns: some unavoidable public standards are legally uncompatible with opensource (mp3 writing - not reading, dvdcss...) in that matter, there are two solution part: * find a company willing to pay for a global licence for the proprietary standards (probably the simpler part) * find a way to make these drivers interact with opensourse. A very good solution is an openSUSE _BOX_. Only the opensource world need to accept than _some_ very small parts of a running system _can't be_ opensource, only for a dawn fu... legal reason. The reaction on the deal Novell/Microsoft shows that part of the OS community is not yet ready to this, may be simply because a legal frame have not yet been found that makes all the parties feel comfortable. this is the right direction to work, not wide spread rants... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org