[NCLUG] Vyatta hype question

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:04:29PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:59:42PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >provide open source router and firewall solutions with commercial
> 
> To throw fuel on the fire, there's also Linksys and ImageStream.
> ImageStream does have some closed source components, but most of their
> setup is just Linux, and they contribute a lot back to the community as
> well.  Smoothwall may also qualify as previous art.
> 
> Sadly for these guys, it sounds like their plans backfired.  :-)
> 
> They just offered some t-shirts so dangerjim is passing them along...  If
> people would prefer, we can tell them to just buy us dinner in the future.
> :-)

On the other hand, I've got nothing against t-shirts for open source
software based commercial offerings, even if they're not the first/only.

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