Re: The best firewall is?

From: Casey (casey_at_nosuch.net)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:35:20 GMT

In article <10cn8r8r472onc0@corp.supernews.com>, orthocrossNOSPAMPLEASE@cablespeed.com says...
and Outpost.
>
> Tell me, Casey: How in God's name do you think those companies are able to
> offer "free" versions of their software? I'll tell you how: Your "free"
> copy is subsidized by countless other people who PAY for their software. As
> a result of paying for their software, they get better products and support.
>
> I (along with many others) am paying for your "free" software. You didnt
> think that the programmers were going to work for free, did you? How about
> the server you downloaded that "free" software from? Someone had to PAY for
> the overhead of maintaining a server in the first place. Such things COST
> MONEY and TIME. SOMEONE has to pay for it, some where down the line.
>
> Stop sucking off Uncle Sugar's tits, and start paying your way for a change.
> You will feel better about yourself, and have a superior product and service
> for it.
>
> By the way, the days of 50kbyte files went the wayside when DOS 6.22 was
> exchanged for Windows XP. In these days of 1gig of memory, there is no need
> to conserve each byte of memory. Such may have been the case when 640k was
> the limit of memory, but things have grown since then.
>
Well Donald, I agree with your statements "As a result of paying for their
software, they get better products and support" and "SOMEONE has to pay
for it, some where down the line." Both statements are obviously true.
Looks like you tend to "read things" into posts that are not there.
In my post I made no suggestions that anyone should use a free product
instead of buying the product.
When I decided to install a firewall on my computer, I, at randon,
selected free Sygate. After I became familar with it and decided that
it is an outstanding firewall, I bought and registered a pro version.
After several versions and upgrades I am now running Sygate Personal
Firewall Pro v5.5 and I am damn proud of it.
Casey
 

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