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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, danny@panda.hilink.com.au,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:19:20 PST."
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:36:34 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> no we HAVE this,
> but it's built into the product..
> you know the HARD part got put into FreeBSD. The EASY part is
>  left as an exercise..

Ah foo, you guys just let your lawyers get too aggressive about
dictating the terms of the initial release.  You should go back to
them and say "Hey guys, look, this is a nice feature of our box and
all that, but it's not like having FreeBSD do its own NAT in a more
difficult and less general fashion is really going to buy us anything
since we're not selling NAT - we're selling a complete solution which
does that plus many OTHER things."

They will then ask what their incentive for giving away extra pieces
of the technology is, and why they would bother.  Your job will be to
convince them that making FreeBSD more out-of-the-box useful is
necessary for attracting more companies to the party, more companies
in turn providing more opportunities to convincing others to
contribute technology which may indirectly enhance Whistle's own
product.

The task of imparting common sense to lawyers is, however, left as an
exercise for the reader. :-)

					Jordan