Hi, > After reading this, I'm a bit confused. Is it a commercial or opensource > product?
It a commercial quality opensourced project. That is, we want to mimic the best functionality around but keep it as opensource as possible. Of course, some parts of it are closed source, antivirus, but the "hook" to the antivirus engine is opensource. The difference is we plan to provide support and sell it already installed in a great hardware. Also, we plan to make custom development, say you want us to add "HTTP load balancing with session control". We need to to debote company resources to such a task and will charge you for that, but then provide it for free to the community. Of course, not everything is money. As part of our apport to the great Leaf project we will privide quite a bit of functionallity allready in the first image. We have made an easy Bering (or Lince) installer, we have added htbinit for QoS, we provide those lurky modifications you need to install it right away in a hard disk, and so on. As we hope this will catch some attention in this list, and as new features are developed by the community we will release more code ourselves. Also, if our business model succeeds, we plan to "donate" money and resources to this great community. Say hosting space, hardware, $$$, whatever. This way we will just thank in a clear way those efforts done in Leaf. If you know coyotelinux is more or less the same stuff but with a big difference, we wont restrict the downloading. Once a feature has been developed and payed for (say in money, say in other functionality) we will release more code into the public sourceforge area. FE, we might be interested in zebra integration. We could do it ourselves, or somebody could provide it (I dont care if that coder is getting paid or not for his job). In exchange we will release a new feature, and so on. So if the community really involves itself in developing and testing we will provide much code than if they just wait and wait. We have already devoted a 3 month period of coding from my partner and friend. He has implemented all the points I said in a prior email, we are just eager to make them public as this project evolves, but dont expect us to make ALL public the first time. We had such a experience with our local LUG and was really frustating to see a 0 code contribution when you gave them quite a bit of resources. Thanks in advance. -- Jaime Nebrera Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
