[17814] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Scharf)
Fri Jun 12 12:30:25 1998
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:39:31 EDT."
<19980610233931.34626@shell.nacs.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:15:58 -0700
From: Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com>
sjsobol@shell.nacs.net said:
> Does this mean the ISC is going away?
No. What it does mean is that the ISC is seriously looking at limiting the
redistribution rights of some of our future software to those who have
contributed towards it's development. We are often hearing from people 'Why
should I give you money if my competitor will get it for free?', so we have to
have an answer to that. Then again, some of our funders are funding us based
on the fact that the software will be generally available, so not all things
will go that way.
We are still very committed to getting code out to small end users who need
highly functional software.
jerry
