Re: Recording slow scans

[Matt Curtin <cmcurtin () interhack net>]

"Donald Martin" <grey () usa net> writes:

> In what way are you asking people to give back to the community?
> You are selling NFR and your charging an arm and a leg to become
> certified in order that other people can sell your product
> commercially.  Either we have a contradiction in terms of commercial
> use, or I'm missing something.

It might be helpful to think of NFR as a platform on which to develop
your agents and whatnot.  If you contribute your agents, and I
contribute mine, and other folks contribute theirs, then all of us
have all of the agents, and it didn't cost us any more than whatever
we plonked down to get the NFRs up and running in whatever capacity
we're using them (resellers, end-users, whatever).

There's no contradiction here; you buy the top-end product (or use the
free one if you can!) and you're in.  All the goodies you get just
make the value of your purchase even better.  If you contribute a
little code, and so does everyone else, there's a lot of extra
functionality there.  *You* win if everyone contributes back.

(No matter what, at some point, you need to spend money to compute,
even if you use a BSD or Linux.  You've got to buy the hardware.  At
some point, you need to shell out some bucks to cover the expenses, or 
find someone who is willing to do it for you.)

mjr's original idea about having a community of folks all trading NFR
code and tips is nice.  Unfortunately, it seems that, as he noted, the
clue density is much lower than it used to be in general.  And I
suspect that lots of the clued among us are off doing things in other
directions.  There is a *lot* of stuff going on now, and only a finite
number of people working on all of that stuff.  The end result is that
there isn't the community of code-contributing cluon generators that
everyone wishes there were.

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Matt Curtin cmcurtin () interhack net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/