[34342] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIND, djbdns, commercialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Sat Feb 3 16:54:45 2001
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:53:30 -0500
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
To: Jeffrey Meltzer <meltzer@villageworld.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010203165329.A22074@og.latency.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.00.10102031617310.12067-100000@www.icsnet.com>; from meltzer@villageworld.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:19:01PM -0500
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:19:01PM -0500, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
> I'd have no problem if Vixie went the Allman route, saying "OK,
> we're going to start charging for support. If you want to know
> about bugs soon after we do, pay us $X. If not, use at your own
> risk."
Agreed. Likewise, I'd give some thought to using BIND again -- even
paying for it -- if some commercial Vixie entity put out something
like:
lynx -dump http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html | sed -e s/"D. J. Bernstein"/ISC/g -e s/djbdns/BIND/g
-adam
