[KLUG Members] IPCop firewall

[Bryan J. Smith]

Michael Morrett wrote:
> Hi Buddies,
> I just installed the ICPcop firewall ISO image from
> http://ipcop.sourceforge.net
>   IPCop v0.1.0 ISO Image
>   Size: 26443776 (25,2MB)
>   MD5: 1bfeb452372066d91aac82e1271c2d70
> I looks/acts/smells just like SmoothWall, and according to the IPCop Credit
> page:
>   "IPCop is based on the Smoothwall GPL version, v0.9.9. We are grateful
>    to them for both inspiring this product and giving us the codebase to
>    work with."
> Maybe "acts" is not right, maybe better "manners". 8-))

FYI, I think everyone should read this post I made on /.:
  http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25942&cid=2813567

I tried to be "neutral" to both the SmoothWall(TM) and IPCop teams. 
Let's keep it fresh in our minds.  If you read the comments, you'll see
one of the IPCop leaders agrees with me.

Again, you don't like Morrell???  Ignore him.  That's what the IPCop
guys are doing.  Let Morrell claim illegal use of the SmoothWall(TM)
code/trademark while bitching it doesn't give proper credit to
SmoothWall(TM) at the same time (they are mutually exclusive! ;-). 
Don't "trouble" the IPCop development team and their focus any further
by engaging in "battles" with _any_ of the SmoothWall(TM) people.

> I have signed up for two of the IPCop mail lists.

One guy who used to be the president of our Orlando LUG hosts the
lists.  He's an overall "good guy," but he and Morrell have gone a "few
rounds" and he has the problem of using the lists as a "spouting off
point."  Hence just one of the many reasons for my above /. post.  

-- Bryan

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