On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 11:32 -0500, Paul Simmons wrote:
> 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 :-).

I certainly like the idea to help funding the project. However I do not
see any point in raising money to give to the lawyers to defend the
trademark or to sue because of the GPL violation. That money could
certainly be used better than being given to the lawyers.

Just donate to the projects you use and love. Every single bit does
help. It will sum up soon.

-Michael

> 
> Paul