On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 22:26, guitarlynn wrote: > On Saturday 31 August 2002 23:07, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Here is a question for the LEAF Project: > > Once there is a web interface to LEAF what is going to stop people > > from packaging it and selling it as a firewall solution? > > It easily rivals many commercial products in its current state and is > > vastly superior to many already. In fact I know of at least 2 > > commercial products based on LEAF. I'm not sure how the LEAF project > > feels about that as it's intentions are pure. > > > > It is the "easy to use interface" that seperates LEAF from commercial > > products! For example as a pure packetfiltering firewall IPTables is > > superior to the Checkpoint firewall1 but FW1 is massive , Why ? cos > > of the "easy to use interface" (and subtle marketing). > > > > I have seen questions about commercial support for LEAF already and > > wonder how long till it becomes a commercial project like SNORT, > > Mosquito etc. > > I do not see LEAF becoming a commercial project, as it is a collection > of somewhat similar projects and is not a single project.
Lynn, LEAF is a single project that uses evolution as a development model. Evolution as a project development model http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg04541.html > LEAF may be > used in commercial settings and run on commercially-sold machines > as long as the licensing is not violated. I think many of us simply want > the credit we are due for the work we have put into it. You can sell > the hardware, you can sell the labor, you can sell support, you can > sell the media with LEAF pre-loaded as long as you follow the > licensing. Shoot, maybe one or more of them would like to donate > some testing equipment or a T-1 for higher-end development! Agreed. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
