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Renato Salles <rsalles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Few months ago we saw CIPE being demolished. > Prepare yourself OpenVPN gurus, 'cause a lot of help is expected in the > near future: FreeS/WAN is dead. > /. has the hole story at: > http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/02/014215.shtml > > How many VPN "players" in the GPL/user-space will remain after that? > I will search a little bit more about kame & racoon ( i remember i saw > something about in the FreeBSD website some time ago) to get started. > I want to know if there is finally hope to a linux kernel ipsec VPN setup, > or it will remain "Jason X Freddy", part two. Well I'd have to say that amidst the wreckage of the open source VPNs, the clear lesson that can be drawn from this is that without adequate funding, open source projects eventually become headless and die. Security software is even more vulnerable to this phenomena because if the founder decides to get a day job, that can quickly spell the end to his active participation -- and if someone finds a vulnerability and there's no one around who's qualified to make a patch -- well you get the idea. Just so you know, I am actively committed to developing OpenVPN and making it the coolest SSL VPN on the planet, but if I can't make a living on my consulting incoming, donations, and corporate funding, well I'll probably have to a get a day job -- and you should know that in general, once someone signs a conventional employment agreement at least here the US, it becomes very difficult for them to be involved in any kind of software development activities on the side, unless it's for one of a small group of companies that are enlightened about Open Source. So please consider making some kind of donation if you haven't already. And the good news is that donations are up considerably since I started occasionally nagging the list about them, and they will really make the difference between this project surviving or not. In fact, right now thanks to your support, I'm working hard on 2.0 which will introduce point-to-multipoint over a single UDP port, and scale to hundreds of clients. I'm hoping to have an initial beta in a month or two. James ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |