On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:35:12PM +0100, Paul Reilly wrote:
>> > > Do the fortinet firewalls run Linux?
> > As far as I can tell, yes;
>> I wonder has anyone got any of these boxes?
> Can you login to them, or how can you tell what they are running?
>> I remember talking to the Fortinet folks at the HEAnet conference, and
> being quite impressed by these boxes.
>> I guess they should just own-up and say they run Linux.
> It's pretty critical to their whole set up, so it's unlikely
> they can switch to non GPL, non Linux technology very easily.
Last Wednesday Welte blogged this;
http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/linux/gpl-violations
(The Wed 20th entry) which is his reflection on the statement you
forwarded. However this morning, Fortinet released this;
http://www.fortinet.com/news/pr/2005/pr042505_gpl.html
Looks good :)
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