Re: The best firewall is?

From: Jeffrey Schwartz (onlyjunkmail_at_email.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:54:41 GMT

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:00:59 -0700, "Donald McDaniel"
<orthocrossNOSPAMPLEASE@cablespeed.com> wrote:

>
>I live on a fixed income, yet even I am able to afford to pay for my
>firewall software. The fact is, the millions of addictive users of
>so-called "free" software, are in reality just greedy. The people who
>write "free" software would rather you PAID for their software. I know of
>very few developers who write "free" software for un-self-serving reasons.
>Which only proves to me that the users of so-called "free" software, who
>would rather use the "free" software instead of paying for it, are greedy.
>An honest man would be willing to pay for the services he receives. The
>millions of users of "free" software wouldn't pay for the gum they chewed,
>if they didn't have to. As far as I am concerned, they are no better than
>thieves. In fact, they are WORSE than thieves, because they are STEALING
>what is being offered freely to them.
>
>By the way, anyone without content filtering in this day and age deserves
>the nasties he is bound to get. And what's the difference in the load to
>system resources by using one all-in-one software product, and using two or
>more stand-alone products to accomplish what a single all-in-one product can
>accomplish with greater ease of use?
>
>Everytime I have used so-called "free" software, I have been badly
>disappointed. Much of the "free" software floating around on the Internet
>is written by amateurs, with little sense of proper design concepts. Much
>of Linux is like that, written by amateurs, and their lack of professional
>design concepts is reflected in the apps they write. Clunky and buggy.
>That pretty much defines Linux apps (and most "free" software in general).

I'm confused on how this hole discussion got started, the original
post was from somebody who is having problems with NIS (a program that
he paid for) that he needs to protect Windows (also a program that he
paid for).

It would seem that the s/w that you pay for is the ones that are
"clunky and buggy) or he wouldn't have posted his question in the
first place.

Jeff

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