Joseph wrote:
> Hello Adam/Svein and everyone,
> 
> I do understand the 
> need and right of the Endian Corp. to make money and even thrive but I 
> think the "community edition" should allow easy update and upgrade as it 
> is GPL Free Software BASED on the work of other GPL'd software.  Imagine 
> if other Distros started doing the same?  Not allowing easy updated is 
> bad karma.  Just my 2c.   I guess if I don't like it I can go use IPCOP, 
> Monowall or Pfsense and not gripe about it.

Endian is doing NOTHING to prevent you from upgrading your firewall; they
simply do not make upgrades available except as an ISO image.

But since Endian is RPM-based (i.e. the ISOS contain a bunch of RPM packages
and a script that installs them), it should not be too difficult to fix this.

In the spirit of GPL'd software, rather than griping about Endian, some members 
of the community could take it upon themselves to grab each new ISO,
extract the RPM packages from it, and make them available on some server.

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