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Hi John, On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 08:35, John Voigt wrote: > I don't know - I'd feel a little slimey selling a system containing software > that Manuel has put so much time and effort into. 1 or 2 extras I had lying > around is one thing but making a business out of it is another. Maybe if I > licensed the software from him and paid something for it. Still hard to > compete with consumer grade firewalls (linksys, dlink etc) You can feel as slimey as you want/need to feel, but most of the rest of the world probably won't join you. Personally, if I choose to package a GPL product, install and configure it, ship it and provide first line support for it, my clients *are* going to pay for that. If they want to do this all themselves, then fine with me. As before, any GPL products I "sell" to commercial companies result in me making a donation to either FSF or to the project - not all the money I made, but some of it. I don't do this because I have to, I do this because I want to. If I support GPL projects, then the projects will likely continue instead of fold - a personal and professional choice I make. I also support those projects I use in other ways where I can. D-Link kit is decent. But what ACTUALLY is it doing? Can you see the source code, do you know what security flaws it has, and can you customize it if needed? Linksys is utter trash. I have and will continue to refuse to support it. It is just garbage. (My personal and professional opinion there.) -- Regards, Hilton Travis Email: Hilton at QuarkAV dot com Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Quark Computers Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.com/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |