RE: $110,000 for Gated Source Code

["Goodwin, Dustin" <dg30546 () imcnam sbi com>]

I would just like to find a company that has licensed the latest source and
is reselling binaries for Solaris and will provide support. Reselling at
reasonable price of course. 
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Dustin Goodwin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris MacFarlane 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:17 AM
> To:   'Roeland M.J. Meyer'; 'Jon Lewis'
> Cc:   'Scott Mace'; 'brad'; nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      RE: $110,000 for Gated Source Code
>
> However how would you like NSF to require larger funding then they already
> get because gated goes for free.
>
> cjm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> > Roeland M.J. Meyer
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 2:31 AM
> > To: Jon Lewis
> > Cc: Scott Mace; brad; nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: $110,000 for Gated Source Code
> >
> >
> > At 11:48 PM 6/8/98 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Scott Mace wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think you would be suprised at the number of commercial
> > networking
> > > > vendors that use GateD source code as the basis for their routing
> > > > protocol suite...
> > >
> > > And if they're going to sell products based on gated, they should be
> > > paying royalties to the Gated Consortium...but why should
> > the average ISP
> > > that wants to try some of the features of gated 4.x be
> > forced to put down
> > > a big chunk of change?  Many ISPs will have the attitude "if
> > I have to
> > > spend X on gated, and still pay for the hardware and figure out the
> > > software, I'll just hand the money to Cisco and have one
> > company to point
> > > fingers at if it doesn't work or breaks."
> >
> > Actually, I'll just use 3.5.9 and point my corporate fingers
> > at MERIT if it
> > doesn't work, or breaks. Further, if I have run-rime problems
> > I may point
> > legal fingers that way, as well. Flemming *has* a point,
> > since GateD is NSF
> > funded, it shouldn't be for-profit. I guarantee that my tax
> > dollars are
> > already paying for it. Why should I pay extra?
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