I'm responding very late to this message, but I just wanted to say that STN
has been absolutely GREAT for me. You earned every penny of the $70 I paid
you. I am sorry they made those cute little $150 "appliance" router
switches, but, hey, it was inevitable! I don't use one, but I always
recommend them to my non-techie friends. They run like a garden hose -
plug them in and they work.
But there are those of us who appreciate what you have done. You were
there long before most of the others. You deserve kudos and nothing else.
Hope that makes you feel better. Go ahead and do anything you want with
your product, open source it if you like. It will only help your user
base, and encourage the product to have a longer useful life, and perhaps,
never die!
Good luck.
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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