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People, there is a real need to find an sponsor to this project, soon. If anybody has contact with medium-large size enterprises connected/interested to give, please move yourself. I'll do my best here, and please, think about that, serious. An one-year sponsorship could be a good starting point. Maybe knoking the mailbox of some chairmains at Suse(read Novel), TurboLinux, IBM or Cyclades.. I don't know. The important think is to start to think about and make some incoming to the project fast. Share your ideas with us about that. RSalles James Yonan disse: > Renato Salles <rsalles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > >> Few months ago we saw CIPE being demolished. >> Prepare yourself OpenVPN gurus, 'cause a lot of help is expected in the >> near future: FreeS/WAN is dead. >> /. has the hole story at: >> http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/02/014215.shtml >> >> How many VPN "players" in the GPL/user-space will remain after that? >> I will search a little bit more about kame & racoon ( i remember i saw >> something about in the FreeBSD website some time ago) to get started. >> I want to know if there is finally hope to a linux kernel ipsec VPN >> setup, >> or it will remain "Jason X Freddy", part two. > > Well I'd have to say that amidst the wreckage of the open source VPNs, the > clear lesson that can be drawn from this is that without adequate funding, > open source projects eventually become headless and die. Security > software is > even more vulnerable to this phenomena because if the founder decides to > get a > day job, that can quickly spell the end to his active participation -- and > if > someone finds a vulnerability and there's no one around who's qualified to > make a patch -- well you get the idea. > > Just so you know, I am actively committed to developing OpenVPN and making > it > the coolest SSL VPN on the planet, but if I can't make a living on my > consulting incoming, donations, and corporate funding, well I'll probably > have > to a get a day job -- and you should know that in general, once someone > signs > a conventional employment agreement at least here the US, it becomes very > difficult for them to be involved in any kind of software development > activities on the side, unless it's for one of a small group of companies > that > are enlightened about Open Source. > > So please consider making some kind of donation if you haven't already. > And > the good news is that donations are up considerably since I started > occasionally nagging the list about them, and they will really make the > difference between this project surviving or not. In fact, right now > thanks > to your support, I'm working hard on 2.0 which will introduce > point-to-multipoint over a single UDP port, and scale to hundreds of > clients. > I'm hoping to have an initial beta in a month or two. > > James > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > -- "A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell." TAO of Programming - Book 4 ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |