At 09:57 AM 2/12/2001 -0800, Martin wrote:
>Anyway, people want BIND. And giving away BIND for truly free would appear
>to be a goal of the ISC:
It is, and nobody has provided any evidence that there is any intent to
make BIND anything other than open source. Open source - usable by anyone
in any way they want.
My objection to the way this has been characterized is that ISC isn't
trying to commercialize BIND, or limit what people do with it.
>I just don't have a feeling of trust for the ISC any more; I don't trust
>the code that comes out of there, and I don't trust them to do the right
>thing politically, either.
Define "right thing". They're building a consortium of root name server
operators and system vendors to allow them early access to exploits. An
argument against this means that you would prefer the root DNS servers to
be exposed to exploit between announcement of a bug and release of a fix. I
can't see that that's the "right thing" by any stretch.
Anyway, this is rather off-topic for this list, and rather like a religious
argument, so it's probably time to drop it.
-Rick
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