[oclug] Beta Sites Required

[Francis J. A. Pinteric]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:17:54 -0500
Kevin Everets <flynn at clarkhall.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:50:14PM -0800, elsid wrote:
> > Greetings:
> > 
> > We, ELSID Software Systems LTD., are just about finished development
> > of a new security product for Linux based file servers.  This software
> > is a combination OS patch, device driver, Java/Swing based user
> > interface and ,believe it or not, documentation.
> > 
> > We are looking for a few sites that currently run commercial servers
> > that are attached to the internet to act as beta sites for this
> > software.
> > 
> > If you 'role your own kernel' and are interested please provide me
> > with a short description of the site, linux version etc..., and its
> > functiion.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Robert
> > 
> > elsid at crbn.com
> > Robert G. McCue
> > President 
> > ELSID Software Systems LTD.
> > 
> 
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> 
> Does not instill confidence in "security product for Linux based file
> servers".

All of his products are also closed source, which leads one to question
even his loyalty to the linux ideal in the first place. It's nice that 
you can download his software and use it for free for `non-commerical'
use, but I no longer use software that  I can't have the source for. In
fact, as long as I have the source code, I don't even care if the
programme is proprietary. Indeed, I had near heartbreak since my favourite
editor, nedit, was closed source ... until recently. With version 5.1, it
is now under the GPL.

Open Source has spoiled me, and that's a good thing.

>>>--fja->

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