From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Simmons To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Is this Grsecurity patch issue going to harm IPFire going forward? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:32:31 -0500 Message-ID: <1440779551.14090.7.camel@hughes.net> In-Reply-To: <55E07429.6060008@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2014201676982736455==" List-Id: --===============2014201676982736455== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Today is the last day of your life so far. --===============2014201676982736455==--