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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:42:14PM -0400, Rich Braun wrote: > Ned Harvey asked: > > Are you discounting openvpn for some reason? pfSense? m0n0wall? > > Openvpn and these others address a much different requirement, that of linking > layer-3 connectivity. SSL Explorer/Adito (and the commercial platforms from > Juniper, Cisco and Barracuda) are not comparable; they operate at the > application layer well above layer 3. > > > I'm not sure what you're afraid of. But if you think oracle is unfriendly > > to open source, think again. > > Maybe I shouldn't be "afraid" (you chose that word, it's not quite the > sentiment I was driving toward in my initial posting). Would love to hear > from others who agree with either of us. Can I agree with both of you? It's good that commercial companies hire people to work on open-source projects. It's bad when this is too concentrated. It is probably, usually, self-correcting. I'm more suspicious of Microsoft joining open source projects than I am of IBM. Oracle is somewhere in between. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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