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I would just like to find a company that has licensed the latest source and is reselling binaries for Solaris and will provide support. Reselling at reasonable price of course. ______________________________________________________ Dustin Goodwin Network Engineering Salomon Smith Barney 212-816-3882 pager 800-225-0256 pin 6057061 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris MacFarlane > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:17 AM > To: 'Roeland M.J. Meyer'; 'Jon Lewis' > Cc: 'Scott Mace'; 'brad'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: $110,000 for Gated Source Code > > However how would you like NSF to require larger funding then they already > get because gated goes for free. > > cjm > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > > Roeland M.J. Meyer > > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 2:31 AM > > To: Jon Lewis > > Cc: Scott Mace; brad; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: $110,000 for Gated Source Code > > > > > > 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:[email protected]>[email protected] > > 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! > >
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