Re: NT Gauntlet vs. BSD Gauntlet, Gauntlet "users"

[Jyri Kaljundi <jk () stallion ee>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Linwood Ferguson wrote:

> TIS has changed their licensing to allow only limited "users".
> Their explanation of a "user" is any IP address protected by the
> firewall.  Has anyone explored what this means from an implementation
> standpoint? 

For the firewall vendors this is a business issue of pricing and licencing
their products. The product must be cheaper for smaller companies, and
bigger one's which have more money could pay more. There is nothing wrong
with this, if you do not like the pricing, you have to talk to vendor and
if they do not lower the prices, you must choose another software company.
It's a free market and software companies can do what they want.

And Check Point has used this pricing model for quite some time. 

Jyri Kaljundi
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