Firewalls: Re: Using Linux for a firewall.

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Subject:	Re: Using Linux for a firewall.
From:	"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw @ wittsend . atl . ga . us>
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 1995 13:33:36 -0500 (EST)
To:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to:	<Pine . LNX . 3 . 91 . 950224114937 . 25564G-100000 @ noc . infonet . net> from "Jeffrey C. Ollie" at Feb 24, 95 11:52:06 am

> Well, IMHO, this is *exactly* why the availability of the Linux source 
> code is a strengh.  Who's to say that the same problems don't exist in 
> Windows NT?  How would you find out without signing your soul away to 
> Microsoft?

	Huh?!?  How would you find out even IF you signed your soul
away to Microsoft???  Only to the sound of a gateway crashing down
and burning around your ears and the whine of the support drones intoning
the "no guarentee of fitness of purpose" clause from the license.

> Jeffrey C. Ollie
> Iowa Network Services Support Daemon

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