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 :-).
>
> Paul
I was going to suggest the same thing. 
Pitching in together to send some cash would be a good thing to do, but
when the bar is set too high they won't get small
contributions from the community.

Bill

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