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[ILUG] FortiOS & Linux

[ILUG] FortiOS & Linux

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Tue Apr 19 13:09:44 IST 2005


On 19 Apr 2005, at 11:54, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

>  "The software in question includes, but is not limited to, the Linux
>  kernel Version 2.4.18,; the UCL data compression library; the Reiser
>  file system [reiserfs]; l2tpd; the GNU C Library [glibc]; and the GNU
>  zlib Compression Library [zlib]"

Which, according to Fortinet, is


"a very small piece of FortiOS firmware"

I'd like the Fortinet people to explain this line though:

It is unfortunate that the GPL team has a record of repeatedly filing
lawsuits against growing technology companies such as Fortinet to
seemingly serve their own commercial interests


What commercial interests would those be, I wonder?



Niall




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