On Feb 14, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 February 2014 11:54, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 13/02/2014 19:43, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: >> >> The thing that brand names as Netgear now sells out of the box >> [..] >> >> I welcome Netgear to the pfSense community as a most welcome addition, >> and I hope to see similar additions in the time to come. >> >> That would be Netgate, not Netgear :-) > > Oooops! :) Slight slip of the fingers that. You would not believe how often it happens. It’s likely that some of you don’t know that Netgate was originally the name of a source-available(*) packet filter for SunOS(**) in 1991. See, for example: http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls/mhonarc/firewalls.199309/msg00092.html Jim (*) the term “open source” had yet to exist in 1991, which was when ‘SmallWorks’, the company behind the Netgate firewall, was formed. (**) FreeBSD didn’t exist in 1991, either. ’Netgate' ran on BSDI’s BSD/OS though we never formally launched it the platform. Rob Kolstad was my boss at Convex in the mid-80s. So I knew those guys really well, but the USL lawsuit prevented our launch on BSD/OS. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
