At 11:48 PM 6/8/98 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Scott Mace wrote:
I think you would be suprised at the number of commercial networking vendors that use GateD source code as the basis for their routing protocol suite...
And if they're going to sell products based on gated, they should be paying royalties to the Gated Consortium...but why should the average ISP that wants to try some of the features of gated 4.x be forced to put down a big chunk of change? Many ISPs will have the attitude "if I have to spend X on gated, and still pay for the hardware and figure out the software, I'll just hand the money to Cisco and have one company to point fingers at if it doesn't work or breaks."
Actually, I'll just use 3.5.9 and point my corporate fingers at MERIT if it doesn't work, or breaks. Further, if I have run-rime problems I may point legal fingers that way, as well. Flemming *has* a point, since GateD is NSF funded, it shouldn't be for-profit. I guarantee that my tax dollars are already paying for it. Why should I pay extra? ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!