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Re: ZeroKnowledge ends Linux version of Privacy Internet


 
Gilles Pelletier wrote:
ZeroKnowledge, producers of the Freedom Internet
Privacy Suite, a
package of software that provided a personal firewall, blocked cookies
and banner ads, locally stored and encrypted website login
information, and scanned outgoing data to ensure personal information
wasn't being sent out against a user's wishes, has announced that
they're discontinuing Linux support due to low interest in their Linux
offerings and a "strong customer preference" for Windows.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-15-008-20-SC-BZ-SW
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Bof c'est sans doute ça l'avantage de linux, c'est que quand un
soft a été developpé
il l'a été grâce aux autres, et il sera toujours
assez rapide de le reproduire d'une autre manière.
C'est très organique.
Apparement tout le monde s'en fout qu'ils abandonne le projet :
 
I remember checking this site out when they first released
their publicity to the Linux community
regarding their products. My impression then (and now) was that this
was a totally useless product.
One of those "snake oil" products that you see so often in the world
of Windows software.
Unfortunately for developers of Windows software, they continue to
find their ability to produce
 "innovative" products hamstrung by Microsofts continued bundling
of the same ideas into the ever
growing blob that is Windows. Most of the ideas touted in the "Freedom"
product have been
available in one form or another for Linux for quite a while and its
appears that Microsoft will have
most of them in Windows as well. One of these days Windows programmers
will realize there is
almost nothing profitable left for them to create since Microsoft has
given it all away for free in the
pursuit of "freedom of innovation".
et lui aussi !
 
"ZeroKnowledge, producers of the Freedom Internet Privacy Suite,
a package of software that
provided a...personal firewall..." ipchains et al, complete with the
many frontends probably made that a redundant function
"...blocked cookies and banner ads..."
 Doesn't junkbuster and such do a good job of that anyway?
"...encrypted website logins..."
Doesn't the https protocol do that anyway? Not sure I understand that
one...
"scanned outgoing data to ensure personal information wasn't being sent
out against a user's
wishes"
Ah! Something which isn't so freely available for Linux! Or does squid
let you do this?
", has announced that they're discontinuing Linux support due to low
interest in their Linux offerings
and a "strong customer preference" for Windows."
Er, yes... because software was already freely available for Linux that
performed most of those
functions, probably bundled in a distro. And Windows...?
And my personal favourite quote...
"Freedom is no longer available for free."
:)
Scottie