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Re: Bug in 1.2.13 firewall?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Sat Jun 15 04:00:40 1996

To: dennis@etinc.com
Cc: sjackson@statsrus.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:10:40 -0400"
Date: 	Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:14:15 +0200
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>

dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
> I was joking, but the point is that your ridiculing of commercial products
> is keeping vendors from supporting LINUX, which hurts the entire
> user population. The statement that LINUX should prohibit the use of
> binary-only distributions is totally absurd. Equally absurd is the thought
> that some dude in the Urals can support a product better than the 
> manufacturer.

Of the messages I've seen in this thread, nobody has criticized
commercial linux support.  Several messages have been critical of
binary-only drivers, which is a different thing entirely.

--Arnt


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