On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 18:35 -0500, David-Paul Niner wrote: > >> > >>Whether or not there is an annual fee associated with ipcop I cannot > >>say, but I do know that releasing software under the GPL and charging an > >>annual support fee are not mutually exclusive propositions. > >> > >>Please forgive me if that was not what you were implying. > >> > >>Just an observation, > > > > ---- > > I wasn't implying anything other than what I said - that the software > > carries a GNU/GPL license and I've never seen anything that stated an > > annual fee to be associated with it - for any reason. If Jeff or anyone > > cares to point out where these fees are mentioned, I would appreciate it > > since I am using ipcop at a number of clients and have given up on > > smoothwall for a number of reasons (and I note that smoothwall is > > interested in support contracts and renumeration for extra features). > > > > I was thinking that Jeff was confused and wanted him to elaborate on his > > point. > > > > Craig > > > > > > This is getting off-topic (and I'll end this here), but I will say > this--I use Smoothwall b/c I bought the corporate version and I hate to > throw money away. One aspect I do not care for is the artificial > imposed limit of only three network devices w/o having to upgrade from > the "Corporate" to the "Advanced" product. > > Having said that, I understand that Smoothwall, Ltd. is a commercial > entity entitled to make a profit. I do not curse them for that. > > I've never configured ipcop, but you've sparked my curiosity about how > it compares to smoothwall in terms of ease of administration. ---- ipcop began as a fork of the GPL version of smoothwall and has been entirely redone using LFS and I think it is way better than smoothwall. The philosophy of why ipcop is embedded within their 'mission statement' and I gather there is a vague reference to smoothwall... "After seeing the direction certain Linux Distributions were heading in, a group of dissatisfied users/developers decided that there was little reason for the idea of a GPL Linux Firewall Distribution of such potential to be, simply, extinguished." You can have multiple 'Red' interfaces and there is a whole host of other features that have left smoothwall behind. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
