[34347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIND, djbdns, commercialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sat Feb 3 17:46:37 2001
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 14:28:33 -0800
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010203142833.B12647@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20010203165329.A22074@og.latency.net>; from asr@latency.net on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:53:30PM -0500
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> 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
Yeah, that's some guarantee there, you betcha...
Specifically, the parts that read:
"I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a
verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns"
AND:
"My judgment is final as to what constitutes a security hole
in djbdns."
It's easy to offer money to your users when only 5 people
worldwide use your software. (And I'm convinced at least 4 of them
are on this list.)
--msa
