[146386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Nov 10 10:57:37 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:56:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111110155317.GA88837@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
---- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
> Just ask folks like AutoZone or DaimlerChrysler how much it cost to use
> Linux when they were sued by SCO and had to defend themselves. Sure,
> they prevailed, but I bet tens of thousands of dollars were spent on
> litigation.
Sure. But compare that to the millions they would have spent using SCO... :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
[1]Yes, I realize AutoZone may have been paying for their Linux distro...
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