Re: [Security Firewall] Florins Firewall

On 3-Aug-05, at 2:14 PM, Repairman wrote:

>> Huh?  How do you figure we're taking a Microsoft route?  I'm
>> completely lost.  Did we threaten to sue anyone?  Are we telling you
>> to stop?  Are we asking you to pay a fee to fork it?  Absolutely
>> not!  I asked for one simple thing and as a result some of you people
>> have utterly lost all common sense!  Comparing my asking you to move
>> discussion to another list to Microsoft tactics?  Excuse me?  That's
>> the most insane thing I think I've possibly ever heard!  Don't you
>> think you're over-reacting a little bit?
>>
>
> The "Microsoft route" reffered to is that in the beginning of MS,  
> they did everything they could to give information to the  
> programmers and end users about their O/S. (A pre-Opensource way of  
> doing business).  Unlike Apple, there was no red tape or hoops you  
> had to jump through. And they became the dominate O/S for this  
> reason. Now they are worse than Apple ever was.
>
> We helped take Mandrake out of bankrupsy and back on it's feet. I'm  
> not going to list everything that I personally have done, but now  
> they have decided to abandon what worked to get them there.
>
> Sounds like the MS route to me.

I still don't get it.  Not once was MNF ever to be given away for  
free.  SNF wasn't, MNF8.2 wasn't, what made everyone think that MNF2  
was any different.

We haven't abandoned anything, we haven't done anything sneaky, we  
haven't robbed you of anything.  We did exactly what we set out to do  
which was to create an enterprise firewall product.  Nothing has  
changed on our end.  Your perception of things seems to have changed  
over time, but I don't understand why.

Did I miss something?  Was everyone told that MNF2 was supposed to be  
free when the betas started rolling and then we snatched it away and  
went back on our word?

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