Thread: Closed Source Packages in Maemo
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2009-09-22 , 17:16
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Originally Posted by korbé View Post
UbuntuOne and Landscape are proprietary on the sever side.

On the website that I visit, they are mostly made from CSS free, so ...

And MSN..... I don's use MSN. You're still too hung up on stereotypes.

So no, my examples dont suck.
They do, they are pathetic. If you run a thin client which uses 100% open source software to connect to Microsoft Windows which runs 100.000.000.000.000 TB of proprietary software you are still running a complete open source operating system.

Why? Because the software running on your computer is open source. The server software runs on the server. E.g. the GPL does not kick in here, and while FSF initially wanted to target this with GPLv3 in its early design they quickly had to reevaluate that preference.

Next you're gonna complain this message was routed by some proprietary Cisco router which source code you weren't able to see gimme a break geez!
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