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FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"Posted Nov 9, 2010 11:17 UTC (Tue) by kevinm (guest, #69913)In reply to: FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core" by dlang Parent article: FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core" Exactly - to turn coriordan's example around, it would have been like saying back in the 80s: "... but if you want to burn the OS into ROM instead of loading it from disk, that'll be fine."
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FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core" Posted Nov 9, 2010 15:13 UTC (Tue) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]
Indeed, and I actually had an old Tandy 1000HX that had DOS (2.something, I think)
burned into ROM, so it needed no disks (floppy or hard) to boot... Was that somehow acceptable from FSF's POV, or actually superior to being able to load any OS one wanted via disk (merely because the disk happened to ship with DOS on it by default)? If so, I think they've gone completely off the deep end... But, if not, they're being hypocritical regarding this "binary blob" situation...
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