Re: BIND, djbdns, commercialization

["Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () samurai sfo dead-dog com>]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> 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
        
        Yeah, that's some guarantee there, you betcha...

        Specifically, the parts that read:

        "I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a 
         verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns"

        AND:

        "My judgment is final as to what constitutes a security hole 
         in djbdns."

        It's easy to offer money to your users when only 5 people
worldwide use your software. (And I'm convinced at least 4 of them
are on this list.)

        --msa