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Subject: Re: TRUST US and other hooui
From: bentley @ sugar-land . oilfield . slb . com (Michael Bentley)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:19:02 -0500
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: ted @ gw . lsli . com "RE: TRUST US and other hooui" (Apr 28, 9:46am)
References: <Chameleon . 950428100153 . ted @ lsli4 . lsli . com>

> The problem no one mentions is that firewalling is a business now which
> means we have to support our products, and if someone takes the code and
> makes fundamental changes in the product leading to a failure it damages the
> reputation of the product and our company. Plus how could we be expected to
> support a product when we don't know what changes to the code the customer
> has made?

yeah!  Just look at how much damage was done to the Unix marketplace because
of source availability.


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