please stop trolling
On Tue, January 30, 2024 11:20 am, hahahahacker2...@airmail.cc wrote:
> On 2024-01-29 23:31, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote:
> You are not using the right word.
> When a software is open source, you can have your eyes on it and
> fix its bug if it is broken, or use pledge and unveil to sandbox it. when open
> source is to make sure a software is not malware, it is useless. Correct
> yourself on future posts about open source.
>> open source model benefits everyone because people can check and know there
>> are no spyware/malware which affects people directly (use your software) or
>> by using some service that uses your software like companies getting hacked
>> left and right even the biggest companies get hacked because they are full of
>> idiots who use proprietary code
>>
>> I am not familiar with the whole profiting thing, but the idea of
>> paying only for compiled binaries sounds reasonable (and accepting donations
>> if they don't) like if someone is on windows, how are they going to compile
>> it? I never seen compiling done on MS Windows, so still profitable? this
>> makes sense to me
>>
>> and if you have money and time think of us who don't like viruses on our
>> computer because that's what proprietary is, virus
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> On Mon, January 29, 2024 3:07 pm, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have written an authoritative DNS server since 2005. This february
>>> 16th
>>> it will have the last Open Source release at version 1.8. The Open Source
>>> development was a great prototype (for me), but I feel that asking for
>>> donations is not going to make me a lot of money so I intend to port it to
>>> Microsoft Windows (and perhaps Mac OS) in the next two years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I also intend to keep this part non-open source, and you may be able
>>> to buy that port in a microsoft store. This is just part of a greater plan
>>> to eventually enter the firewall market as a cloud based layer seven
>>> firewall. Many systems already exist doing this, but I'm hoping my
>>> approach will eventually get me a minute market share enough to pay some
>>> bills.
>>>
>>> Now to my question(s):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Does the LibreSSL port to windows work? If so, great! That will
>>> easen the porting work.
>>>
>>> 2. How hard would it be to port the imsg framework to Windows? I
>>> understand there is descriptor passing involved which windows doesn't know.
>>> But
>>> I'm
>>> confident that an alternative can be found. Does a windows port to imsg
>>> already exist?
>>>
>>> 3. Just out of the blue, is there Windows efforts for pledge and
>>> unveil? I don't intend to port them but leave them be just like the Linux
>>> port that is already working.
>>>
>>> Please, don't feel annoyed that I'm porting to Windows. It is just an
>>> effort to gain a larger marketshare of people that could use this as a
>>> product. After
>>> nearly 20 years I have finally a chance to make some money. Something I
>>> never had before. Also version 1.8 will always be around, it will never
>>> go away. And in a few years I do intend to release version 1.9 (without
>>> windows port),
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm a firm believer that the Open Source model benefits the cream of
>>> the crop (the people with skills on top), but it doesn't benefit everyone.
>>> I'm not
>>> a hotshot programmer, I'm mediocre at best. This is why I want to adopt an
>>> "open core" business model. This may be selling out to some. So
>>> what.
>>>
>>>
>>> Also the days of closed source are almost finished. People with
>>> enough ML/AI power can devise decompilers that are able to make a fine
>>> human understandable code (in C) of a binary. I have seen screenshots of
>>> C
>>> decompilers that label variables var0, var1, var2, var3 etc etc. So
>>> non-coherent. But with a bit of AI the var1, var2, varN... can be
>>> rearranged to something more understandable. This also means that open
>>> source will win, but its significance will not be so obvious anymore. So I
>>> give my "closed
>>> source" part a few years before they are decompiled back into source.
>>> Hopefully enough time to make a bit of money.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help along the way for the last 19 years! And who
>>> knows you can always fork my open source version and continue development
>>> for all. It would be nice to see what you're doing with it and even
>>> participate but my priority for the next two years is re-education as a
>>> social worker and when I can to work on this windows port, so that I have
>>> more options to make money in 2026 and beyond (before I reach retirement
>>> age in 20 odd years).
>>>
>>> -peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please reply with CC to me since I'm not on tech@ and misc@ lists for
>>> the time being.
>>>
>>>
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