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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:53:17 -0800
In a message written on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:14:26AM -0500, Richard Kulawiec wrote:
Please point to an instance (case citation, please) where a commercial firewall vendor has been successfully litigated against -- that is, held responsible by a court of law for a failure of their product to provide the functionality that it's claimed to provide.
Unsuccessful litigation has costs as well. Patent trolls have sued end-users in a number of cases for both commerical and open source software. In many cases they lose, but someone still has to shell out a pile of cash for the lawyers to defend. Just ask folks like AutoZone or DaimlerChrysler how much it cost to use Linux when they were sued by SCO and had to defend themselves. Sure, they prevailed, but I bet tens of thousands of dollars were spent on litigation. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?, (continued)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jack Bates (Nov 10)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jones, Barry (Nov 11)
- Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Leo Bicknell (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)