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Re: BIND, djbdns, commercialization


From: Adam Rothschild <asr () latency net>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:53:30 -0500


On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:19:01PM -0500, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
I'd have no problem if Vixie went the Allman route, saying "OK,
we're going to start charging for support.  If you want to know
about bugs soon after we do, pay us $X.  If not, use at your own
risk."

Agreed.  Likewise, I'd give some thought to using BIND again -- even
paying for it -- if some commercial Vixie entity put out something
like:

        lynx -dump http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html | sed -e s/"D. J. Bernstein"/ISC/g -e s/djbdns/BIND/g

-adam


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