From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Pechter To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Is this Grsecurity patch issue going to harm IPFire going forward? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:34:41 -0400 Message-ID: <55E08DA1.9070204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1440779551.14090.7.camel@hughes.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4853630339342406878==" List-Id: --===============4853630339342406878== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/ --===============4853630339342406878==--