Re: Is this Grsecurity patch issue going to harm IPFire going forward?

[William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com>]

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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

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