After having had trouble with all those dumb journalists ( the smoothwall developers team has two statements on their web site, one against an article in the UK Linux Magazine and now another one against the article in C'T ) in the last weeks who would wonder if Mr. Morrel and his team decide to print their own magazine:
I suppose the name of the new magazine to be: how-to-become-a-prick-in-order-to-flame-everybody- who-does-not-pay-me
Headline suggestions welcome!
now we (Mr. Morrell) feel annoyed? The community fucked it up! How come? I don't wan't anybody to say any bad things about my PERFECT software. I don't wan't anybody to ask anything about my PERFECT software - except they donate 1.000.000$ to my swiss bank account...
What about those millions of millions GPL developers providing great programs to our community, doin' support work everyday, constantly improving their software for our all benefit?
Do they shit in our face because we ask them some questions about their software? No.
Mr. Morrell, with all honor for the work you did, i have to say that you with your attitude do not fit into the community of the GPL. You develop software under the GPL but you expect from us to be paid and treated as a developer of proprietary software.
tiomo
BTW: i was going to install a bunch of firewalls using SmoothWall as an easy-to-use GPL software. But having seen your attitude towards the community turned my opinion 180 round.
First i want to say that reviewing a firewall has not to be done by cracking it with kiddie tools.
This article written in c't is as informative as it needs to be for anyone who wants to install a firewall for his network at home or at a small company. For any other cases professional firewalls should be used.
Revealing those "security leaks" like passwords in plain-text was exactly the thing i expected the author of such an "firewall review" to do.
This article was not written for the demanding network administrator who is working with high-tech firewalls for his entire career, it was written for small companies and businesses which can't afford high-tech firewalls for thousands of dollars.
Also i don't think that those plaintext passwords are unimportant because SmoothWall creates a single-user system.
Every vulnerability of a system is a potential security leak until it is fixed.
And i would like to say something about the behaviour of Mr. Morrell, even if this has already been heavily discussed.
I don't understand why he treats his potential customers so aggressively on the IRC chat. It seems to me that he and his group wrote a piece of GPL'ed software and wants to be treated like he wrote some proprietary software.
If someone tells me: "don't ask me things about my gpl software until you donated some money to me" my only reaction will be: "fuck off, there is always FREE software which is better than this, i just have to find it."
I think it is very offending by Mr. Morrell to harass someone for being from another country than he is from. I'm from Germany, i am german and i think there is nothing bad about being german or having a german heritage, name, etc.
I know there are still many people in the world who think Hitler is still ruling Germany, but i don't think Mr. Morrell is counting himself to this group.
Germans are not evil *g*.
Please excuse my bad english. I only had five years of english in school, but i promise i will try to improve:)
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After having had trouble with all those dumb journalists ( the smoothwall developers team has two statements on their web site, one against an article in the UK Linux Magazine and now another one against the article in C'T ) in the last weeks who would wonder if Mr. Morrel and his team decide to print their own magazine:
- who-does-not-pay-me
I suppose the name of the new magazine to be:
how-to-become-a-prick-in-order-to-flame-everybody
Headline suggestions welcome!
oohhh...
now we (Mr. Morrell) feel annoyed? The community fucked it up! How come? I don't wan't anybody to say any bad things about my PERFECT software. I don't wan't anybody to ask anything about my PERFECT software - except they donate 1.000.000$ to my swiss bank account...
What about those millions of millions GPL developers providing great programs to our community, doin' support work everyday, constantly improving their software for our all benefit?
Do they shit in our face because we ask them some questions about their software? No.
Mr. Morrell, with all honor for the work you did, i have to say that you with your attitude do not fit into the community of the GPL. You develop software under the GPL but you expect from us to be paid and treated as a developer of proprietary software.
tiomo
BTW: i was going to install a bunch of firewalls using SmoothWall as an easy-to-use GPL software. But having seen your attitude towards the community turned my opinion 180 round.
First i want to say that reviewing a firewall has not to be done by cracking it with kiddie tools.
:)
This article written in c't is as informative as it needs to be for anyone who wants to install a firewall for his network at home or at a small company. For any other cases professional firewalls should be used.
Revealing those "security leaks" like passwords in plain-text was exactly the thing i expected the author of such an "firewall review" to do. This article was not written for the demanding network administrator who is working with high-tech firewalls for his entire career, it was written for small companies and businesses which can't afford high-tech firewalls for thousands of dollars.
Also i don't think that those plaintext passwords are unimportant because SmoothWall creates a single-user system.
Every vulnerability of a system is a potential security leak until it is fixed.
And i would like to say something about the behaviour of Mr. Morrell, even if this has already been heavily discussed.
I don't understand why he treats his potential customers so aggressively on the IRC chat. It seems to me that he and his group wrote a piece of GPL'ed software and wants to be treated like he wrote some proprietary software.
If someone tells me: "don't ask me things about my gpl software until you donated some money to me" my only reaction will be: "fuck off, there is always FREE software which is better than this, i just have to find it."
I think it is very offending by Mr. Morrell to harass someone for being from another country than he is from. I'm from Germany, i am german and i think there is nothing bad about being german or having a german heritage, name, etc. I know there are still many people in the world who think Hitler is still ruling Germany, but i don't think Mr. Morrell is counting himself to this group.
Germans are not evil *g*.
Please excuse my bad english. I only had five years of english in school, but i promise i will try to improve