On 12-Feb-07, at 2:24 PM, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
i m a little confused . why are u asking on the thread . ask openlx for it. did u email/call/yell ? did they refuse to share it ?
i dont want to waste bandwidth first downloading and then asking. I dont see why he cant clarify the position
he did, he said it'll be available soon on the website.. expecting him to answer "where is the full source available now?" is being unreasonable and doesn't require any further clarification..
your standards are obviously different from mine. But when a product is pushed as GPL and Open Source and heavily recommended on this list, blah blah - without putting up the source code even 2 years after release, I tend to be highly suspicious about the freeness and opensoureceness of the product. If you want to see what I consider a genuine free and opensource distro look here:
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
note the elaborate pages regarding source, developers, how developers should approach the source etc. Check this:
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/documents/developer/new_developer.html
ok - in hairsplitting legalistic terms I am being unreasonable, but would warn any users that the lack of transparency here may lead to problems tomorrow.