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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
No, it's evident you don't.
Open Source is about software licensing, hardware openness is related but not identical, and certainly not a prerequisite.
Erm, the Sony Readers, the Kindle and the Nook are all Linux-powered. Also, you mentioned Sony TV's: They're Linux-based. Routers, ADSL and cable modems, mobile phones, cable boxes, NAS, and TVR's and a host of other home devices are linux-powered. And that's just Linux, there's plenty of other open source software out there.
Netcraft says that Mobileread is running under Apache on Linux. The forum software Mobileread uses, PhpBB, is open source - and that works off the open lisence (although non-copyleft) php scripting system alongside the open source MySQL (or maybe Postgres SQL, same difference)
Also, Nintendo and Sony console development is utterly dependent on open-sourced tools, as are the vast majority of even closed-source projects today (I think you can figure out why that's not true for the 360, lol). |
you keep saying based on linux but unless they release THEIR code that runs the device then it isnt open source software is it? but just based on open source which I Never mentioned!
eg I know OSX is based on open source but OSX isnt open source.
so which of those devices have open software running them?