Major systems vendors and Linux

Major systems vendors and Linux

Posted Mar 12, 2007 12:26 UTC (Mon) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: Major systems vendors and Linux by liamh
Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux

But remember that one of the sparks which led to the whole thing developing was RMS' disgust at a printer manufacturer's refusal to divulge exactly the kind of information under discussion in this thread:

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

Don't you think RMS would have been a good deal less tolerant of Solaris had Sun withheld details of how to make system calls on the grounds that it was "proprietary information"? (Or had Sun prohibited redistribution of any software compiled with their C compiler under GPL-like terms, for that matter?)

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