On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 10:46 -0400, William Pechter wrote:
> Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Sure it is free software in the end and we all wouldn't do free
> > software if we didn't know this from the beginning. We do not expect
> > money from every single user, because other things are even more
> > important. But at the end of the day money is needed to run the
> > project. If someone is paying that from their own pocket and an other
> > one is making the huge profit, something is *clearly* wrong.
> Thank you for the in depth answer...
> 
> I hope there's someone out there who will leak the name of the large
> company so there's a change in their behavior and a loss of
> at least a little of their customer base.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's big money in computer security these days and
> some large companies have been buying up the Open Source
> products.  I remember when Cisco replaced their sensor box under Solaris
> (IIRC it was Solaris, not SCO) with a Linux customized box
> with Snort...
> 
> Perhaps the Open Source community needs to pool resources in some kind
> of cooperative to keep these projects going.
> 
> At least Snort is still available after the Cisco buyout.  It could have
> been worse and been an Oracle purchase which usually causes a pull of
> the open source version from the net.
> 
> Bill
> 

I was about to suggest a "grsecurity sponsorship funding drive" for
IPFire, until I found that sponsorship costs $200USD/month.

https://grsecurity.net/sponsors.php

Crappola - I can't even come up with $10USD to send to IPFire, so I
suppose that's a bad idea.  If I win a sweepstakes, I'll send the
money :-).

Paul
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