On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:20 -0500, David Boles wrote:
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Karl Larsen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> It is interesting the hoops technical people jump through for
> Political reasons. Java exists on a web page somewhere and it is
> operating system independent. It is free to all users.
>
> But the users need to know how to get it and mount it. If Fedora is
> not going to use the real java in their distribution it is another
> reason other versions of Linux are slowly being used by the public (I
> have not seen any yet in my Wal-Mart).
>
> In competition with Windows you do things that are not good from the
> free software point of view. In my opinion we should change the
> definition of free to include software available free but without source
> code. In this group comes the driver for Nvidia hardware. I think what's
> happening is a Political fix where someone is using the Nvidia software
> which is NOT with a source code, and when a new kernel is ready they run
> the Nvidia software and make the kernel driver(s), which are then put in
> a rpm file and sent to users as a Update. It looks good but is it really
> good?
I just have to ask you Karl. What OS or Linux distribution natively
includes Sun Java? What OS or Linux distribution natively includes the
Nvidia drivers that you install?
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WRT Sun's Java, you know that Karl won't know that answer but I do.
The answer is here...
https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/
which of course still begs the issue of their license which is
restrictive.
nVidia is of course, a horse of another color since only binaries exist
and there is no source to study at all.
Craig