"... Most of its parts remains closed ..."
1) the chinese and japanese fonts
2) the "flash install" and "live upgrade" ... (which are effectively replaced under the ZFS system anyway)
3) Acroread, flash and Realplayer ... which never belonged to Sun
4) man pages for devices and programs that are obsolete or open versions have been used.
5) certain cluster software
6) certain older device drivers (usually from the manufacturers themselves) and hardware specific implementations of some Sun kit, usually because these have been replaced by existing open-source versions.
7) sparc grpahics drivers, I don't personally know if these have been replaced or not ...
8) the XSun server (replaced with XOrg), fonts, and some Adobe code for displaying PostScript.
It seems like a lot till you realise that it pretty much doesn't affect any OpenSolaris desktop user, and probably not most servers.
the problem only occurs if you don't have access to Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts, and I'd guess that those are available nowadays.
I would say that very few parts are now closed source.
1) the chinese and japanese fonts
2) the "flash install" and "live upgrade" ... (which are effectively replaced under the ZFS system anyway)
3) Acroread, flash and Realplayer ... which never belonged to Sun
4) man pages for devices and programs that are obsolete or open versions have been used.
5) certain cluster software
6) certain older device drivers (usually from the manufacturers themselves) and hardware specific implementations of some Sun kit, usually because these have been replaced by existing open-source versions.
7) sparc grpahics drivers, I don't personally know if these have been replaced or not ...
8) the XSun server (replaced with XOrg), fonts, and some Adobe code for displaying PostScript.
It seems like a lot till you realise that it pretty much doesn't affect any OpenSolaris desktop user, and probably not most servers.
the problem only occurs if you don't have access to Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts, and I'd guess that those are available nowadays.
I would say that very few parts are now closed source.
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