Re: Open Source vs Proprietary

Because corporate guys need someone to blame (the provider) if 
something goes wrong ("but.... IT WAS IBM's fault !!!"). The old 
saying: "Nobody gets fired for..."
With open source software your approach is 'best effort' and one is 
responsible for what he/she recommends.
Best regards,
Javier Blanque

El 09/06/2005, a las 04:32, Joseph (Joe) Lynn escribió:

> Hi all,
>  
> Sorry everyone, forgive my ignorance, but I’m still a bit confused on 
> these issues – I don’t understand why anyone would buy a firewall that 
> has a cost associated with it rather than just taking a bog standard 
> pc and installing an open source firewall on it, such as IPCop or 
> OpenBSD PF.
>  
> From the responses to my post about IPCop and the messages about 
> OpenBSD, it looks like these options are as secure as you’re going to 
> get.
>  
> Perhaps it might be easier to configure proprietary firewalls, and 
> they might give better logging and analysis options, but presumably, 
> certainly with IPCop, and I would assume, with OpenBSD, you can find 
> adequate Open Source options that will provide any of the functions 
> that the other firewalls do (with the exception of ISA2004, which 
> sounds like it works with the applications rather than the packets….) 
> – like e.g. snort.
>  
> Do people just buy firewalls because they can’t be bothered to learn 
> to set up Open Source systems, or is there more to this that I’m 
> missing?
>  
> Many thanks,
>  
> Joe
>  
>