Please keep my $70.00 it has been well worth the price, I already make the
system
boot from a hard drive. How about a 2 floppy system? I would just as soon
have
a hard drive system though
Keep up the good work
Robert
At 02:23 PM 5/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Sales of ShareTheNet have dropped off almost completely. I believe this is
>because of the following factors (in order of precedence):
>
>o There are plenty of inexpensive hardware alternatives that do as
>great job
>of sharing your Internet connection.
>o STN does not support PPPoE, IPSec & other features
>o The STN web site is old & crummy
>o There has not been an update to STN in quite awhile
>o I'm sure there's more, but you get the picture.
>
>I've been working on a new version of STN for over a year, but I've come up
>against a very difficult technical problem - the newest kernel + the newest
>glibc just don't leave me enough room on the floppy for everything else. I
>spent time working with uClibc, but that has not panned out so far either.
>
>So, what to do? I'm considering releasing STN as an open source product.
>That is, I'll release the source code under the GPL, but still sell support
>for it. It will no longer require a registration code to run, but to get
>official support you'll have to register it.
>
>I'm worried that I'll get a lot of people saying "hey, I want my $70 bucks
>back." Does anyone think this is a reasonable position?
>
>Would anyone on the list sign up to be a developer?
>
>Any suggestions, concerns?
>
>Regards,
>John Lombardo
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