a few days ago i saw a shareware product for widoz platform which is actually a combination of Apache and Perl. They even tweaked the Apache to lock it after expiry of evaluation period. you can understand how much ethical is it. but i want to know whether it is legal?
jaybrata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [LIH]A matter of Ethics > On Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:47 PM [GMT+0530=IST], > Sunil Dhaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi List, > > Narrated below is a situation: > > -------------------------------- > > Linux box implementing IPTables (as included in the distro aka out of > > the box) + A Winz box running a GUI administration package to manage > > the IPTables rules. > > ------------------------------- > > Q: Is it ethical to call this bundle a proprietary FIREWALL? > > Not really. But I've not known too many marketers to be overburdened > with ethics ... given that there's a fair number of such "products" in > the market. > > Or wait - that win9x GUI for spitting out iptables rules from point and > click _might_ be called proprietory software, like VC++ would be called > a proprietory IDE for generating C++ code. > > srs > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
