[Cialug] ipcop

[Michael Osten]

On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Claus wrote:

>> IPCop is similar because it is a direct fork of smoothwall, which 
>> would imply that there was/is something wrong with the smoothwall 
>> project.  I would like to stress the importance of looking into the 
>> history of Smoothwall before supporting them.
>
> Wow, harsh statement.  "OpenBSD is similar because it is a direct fork 
> of NetBSD, which would imply that there was/is something wrong with 
> the NetBSD project."  While some OpenBSD people do agree with that I 
> don't think that statement is appropriate.  I read the same out of the 
> IPCop/Smoothwall statement.  This game can be played with many other 
> forks.  No reason was given why Smoothwall has/had something wrong 
> with it.  In fact it sounds like the poster doesn't know much about 
> Smoothwall, just like me - I don't know either software.  With that 
> the statement above not only has no value but it's also misleading.

I meant that there in my opinion  there *is* something wrong with the 
Smoothwall project.  I simply wanted to suggest that the user could do 
his own research, as I would suggest that people should do before 
supporting any project.
--
Michael Osten
http://www.bleepyou.com/~mosten/pgp.txt