Isn't this illegal???

[jayd512]

Yeah, like I said in an earlier post, it's not that I have anything to say about developing a product or changing the code and making a little scratch along the way... far from it! Indeed, I applaud your efforts to do so! I think that a few of us were just a bit leery, for lack of a better word, of a Linux based product that actually charges any type of fee for it's professional deployment. Since it's mainly RHEL or SLED that do that, and they've been around for a while, I guess you just took us a little by surprise.

But now that you've cleared it up, and we know that it's a legitimate business with a live person driving... Good enough for me! Good luck with your endeavors!!!

[steve_hirst]

Hello all.
I thought I would give my 2 pinnies on this one. I am a user of this software and have been since the first free one that was produced on the dd-wrt forum and still have that server running a few hotspots today.

I know that I am not the first one that you would ask about this but being one of the users I guess its my place to step in. I setup the free one and yes the first time that I did it it didn't work well for me so I went in and asked a few questions to find out what I did wrong.

I have been a win user for many years and I will tell you that this software is the only thing that brought me to linux. and it has done so for many others. I think that this project would be praised here for that alone.

on another point I feel that a development team, that asks its users what features they want and then delivers, is one of the best teams that there is around. so what if they ask for some cash for the effort that they put twards it. I will gladly pay $100, $200, even $500 for this level of comitment by a groop of guys and I have.

thanks chuck and loren for all that you do and keep up the good work no matter what anyone says about it, it is very admirable.

Stephen P Hirst
Odessa, TX

[carlomm]

Hi peoples, I'm a first time user of Debian Enchilada.

I living in Italy and local laws are very "heavy" about internet use.

When I start to use DE (2008 Febrruary) I'm a windows user only and my experience with Linux area are near zero. I have tried many others Wifi administration systems Linux based but nothing of these are so simple to install for my know how.

I buy the disk from Chucks and after load a disk into the driver immediately I have had a full operating system, like if I have employed Linux Guru in my company.

After 8 months I have learned more to make many and deep changes to DE source code to full accomplish antiterrorism Italians law.

Chuck and Loren every times and every days have supported my work with suggestions and explanetions down to the most misterious side of DE. I have posted hundreds of message. Surely they spent many time to repli my questions.

Now I'm the 1st in Italy with a wifi control systems with this functions. .

This my witness, yes I don't like the activation code but if anyone know a method to protect software development and developers from lamers ....

I hope that who I wrote here isn't offensive for anyone, but if this happen I don't want do it intentionality, this my English.

And last fact: I become to be a Linux fan !!!


Ciao Carlo
Milano Italy
IW2FIV

[oz]

Hey, everyone... this subject has been pretty well covered by both sides now so I'm going to close this thread to further discussion, as it's beginning to take on the appearance of an advertisement for this product.

Sorry to all for any inconvenience...

[SkittleLinux18]

As the initial starter of the thread "Is This Legal?" I want to extend a formal, sincere apology to the folks at Wifi-Gator.

Yes, I did jump to conclusions too quickly. Yes, I was misinformed. I am very sorry for creating misconceptions about the project Wifi-Gator has undertaken. As I read through the clarifications that were so excellently provided about the project, and the overall reasons and purposes of the project, the more I found myself in complete agreement with Chuck_D and the company. I was entirely out of line to post a thread in the manner that I did. While I am truly sorry for the thread, I am still grateful that I started it because misconceptions were cleared up for myself, my friends, and it sounds like other Linux users on these forums. My only regret is that I did not go about it in a more professional manner. Again, my sincerest apologies.

To add to my apology, I would also like to thank everybody at Wifi-Gator for all their hardwork to be the first to provide a service that cannot be found anywhere else. Please, please, stay on the forefront of technology so that all of us may benefit.

One last thing, Chuck_D, you said something in your first post that I really admired. It was the fact that your company has worked with others outside of the project to receive any insight/programming that others have come up with to help better the programming your company has worked so diligently on. That to me is very important and I respect all who follow that same example of what Linux stands for.

I hope this resolves any issues (as small as I am sure they are) that I have created with my thread. I only wish I had caught that thread before it was closed so I could have done it on there. I realize that under legal and business terms, this was probably not necessary. But as a matter of respect to WiFi-Gator and the whole team, I felt obliged to show them the dignity and decency of extending my personal apologies.

Sincerely,
SkittleLinux18


* Moderator Edit: skittle, I've added your apology to the thread in question.